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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

creativetourist.com

Things to do in Manchester and the North - Creative Tourist

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creativetourist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 3.5 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

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.821

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

creativetourist.com

205 ms

www.creativetourist.com

593 ms

phj7giw.css

499 ms

style.css

909 ms

jquery.min.js

553 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Creativetourist.com, 81% (62 requests) were made to Static.creativetourist.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) relates to the external source Static.creativetourist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 588.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Creativetourist.com main page is 2.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 113.5 kB
  • After minification 107.5 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 90.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Creative Tourist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 456 B

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 452.4 kB

  • Original 465.6 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 452.4 kB or 97% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (27%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 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 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

creativetourist.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

creativetourist.com SEO score

99

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 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

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