Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

ashfordcastle.com

5* Castle Hotel, Award Winning Ashford Castle, Mayo, Ireland

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ashford Castle content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ashfordcastle.com

Once home to the Guinness family, Ashford Castle is a five-star Red Carnation castle hotel situated on the shores of the second biggest lake in Ireland, Lough Corrib. Explore now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ashfordcastle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ashfordcastle.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ashfordcastle.com

145 ms

ashfordcastle.com

479 ms

uwt5iym.css

137 ms

uc.js

46 ms

moment-with-locales.min.js

675 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ashfordcastle.com, 52% (28 requests) were made to Redcarnationhotels.com and 20% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (907 ms) relates to the external source Redcarnationhotels.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 505.3 kB (75%)

Content Size

678.3 kB

After Optimization

172.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ashfordcastle.com main page is 678.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 568.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 109.6 kB
  • After minification 107.8 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 87.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 418.1 kB

  • Original 568.7 kB
  • After minification 568.7 kB
  • After compression 150.6 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 418.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (95%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ashford Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ashfordcastle.com accessibility score

84

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

ashfordcastle.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ashfordcastle.com SEO score

64

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Ashfordcastle.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 Ashfordcastle.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 Ashford Castle. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: