Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

black-prince.com

Narrowboat Holidays Hire UK | Barge & Canal Boats | Black Prince

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

532 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

black-prince.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Black Prince content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about black-prince.com

Narrowboat holidays in England, Wales, Scotland. Choose from 9 stunning locations in the UK with a wide range of luxury canal boats to hire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Black-prince.com page load time and found that the first response time was 532 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

black-prince.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.black-prince.com

532 ms

css

83 ms

layerslider.css

39 ms

layerslider.custom.css

52 ms

wdsi.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Black-prince.com, 50% (106 requests) were made to H3qjzy04be2lnxp7ypyfneft.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 21% (45 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source External.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (41%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Black-prince.com main page is 4.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 195.8 kB

  • Original 226.6 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 30.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 195.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Black Prince images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 748.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 301.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 748.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 589.7 kB

  • Original 683.5 kB
  • After minification 629.0 kB
  • After compression 93.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Black-prince.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 589.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (36%)

Requests Now

196

After Optimization

126

The browser has sent 196 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Prince. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

black-prince.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

black-prince.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

black-prince.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Black-prince.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Black-prince.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Black Prince. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: