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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

creativetourist.com

Things to do in Manchester and the North - Creative Tourist

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

511 ms

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About Website

Visit creativetourist.com now to see the best up-to-date Creative Tourist content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about creativetourist.com

Discover fantastic things to do in Manchester and the North - from cinema, concerts, art exhibitions and theatre to family events and sizzling spoken word.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creativetourist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 656 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

creativetourist.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.creativetourist.com

656 ms

e12a7197-6dfc-4ce1-a15e-1580301ba95f.css

57 ms

177 ms

176 ms

344 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Creativetourist.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Creativetourist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 596.6 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

881.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Creativetourist.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 824.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 139.9 kB

  • Original 175.5 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 139.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 120.3 kB

  • Original 824.4 kB
  • After minification 704.1 kB

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. Obviously, Creative Tourist needs image optimization as it can save up to 120.3 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 308.6 kB

  • Original 445.7 kB
  • After minification 445.6 kB
  • After compression 137.1 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 308.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 32.8 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Creativetourist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (38%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Creative Tourist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.creativetourist.com

www.creativetourist.com

656 ms

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Accessibility Review

creativetourist.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

creativetourist.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

creativetourist.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Creativetourist.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 Creativetourist.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

creativetourist.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Creative Tourist. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: