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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

helpfulholidays.co.uk

South West Holiday Cottages, Devon Cottages | Helpful Holidays

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

460 ms

About Website

Welcome to helpfulholidays.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Helpful Holidays best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about helpfulholidays.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helpfulholidays.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helpfulholidays.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

helpfulholidays.co.uk

172 ms

helpfulholidays.co.uk

283 ms

www.helpfulholidays.co.uk

495 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.min.6bd67d14c1d557de4b371266af5443d4.css

136 ms

helpful-desktop-style.d9f8010aacf400b7d13ae45260f1b4ae.css

424 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Helpfulholidays.co.uk, 11% (5 requests) were made to Media.sykesassets.co.uk and 7% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (653 ms) relates to the external source S3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

916.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helpfulholidays.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 390.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 198.1 kB

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 215.6 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 39.5 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 198.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 390.8 kB
  • After minification 377.7 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. Helpful Holidays images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 176 B

  • Original 284.6 kB
  • After minification 284.6 kB
  • After compression 284.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 198.8 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 197.5 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. Helpfulholidays.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (58%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helpful Holidays. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

helpfulholidays.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

[role] values are not valid

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

helpfulholidays.co.uk 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

helpfulholidays.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Helpfulholidays.co.uk 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 Helpfulholidays.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Helpful Holidays. 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: