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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

hotelbarges.co.uk

Hotel Barges | Luxury European River and Canal Cruises

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

683 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hotel Barges content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hotelbarges.co.uk

Cruise the scenic waterways of Europe in luxury on our crewed hotel barge cruises. Explore canals and rivers in comfort on quality small hotel boats.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotelbarges.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 683 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

hotelbarges.co.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hotelbarges.co.uk

683 ms

www.hotelbarges.co.uk

1316 ms

cookieconsent.js

239 ms

cookieconsent-init.js

339 ms

cookieconsent-signals_green.js

412 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Hotelbarges.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hotelbarges.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hotelbarges.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 938.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 23.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 938.5 kB
  • After minification 931.7 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. Hotel Barges images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 303.8 kB

  • Original 447.9 kB
  • After minification 443.4 kB
  • After compression 144.1 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 303.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 182.3 kB

  • Original 217.6 kB
  • After minification 217.3 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Hotelbarges.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (30%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hotel Barges. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hotelbarges.co.uk accessibility score

92

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 input fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

hotelbarges.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hotelbarges.co.uk 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hotelbarges.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hotelbarges.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of Hotel Barges. 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: