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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

outposts.co.uk

Tailor-Made Holidays, Safaris & Travel to Africa | Outposts Travel Africa

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

456 ms

About Website

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Outposts Travel Africa specialises in tailor-made holidays and safaris for travellers seeking authentic experiences in East and Southern Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Outposts.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 218 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

outposts.co.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.196

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

outposts.co.uk

218 ms

travelafrica.outposts.co.uk

492 ms

horizontal-slim-10_7.css

26 ms

ea203a5c-563b-4cce-a850-40853d0b4a41.js

61 ms

fc656.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Outposts.co.uk, 77% (119 requests) were made to Travelafrica.outposts.co.uk and 12% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (788 ms) relates to the external source Travelafrica.outposts.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Outposts.co.uk main page is 4.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.2 kB

  • Original 167.6 kB
  • After minification 167.4 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 139.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Outposts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 726 B

  • Original 260.5 kB
  • After minification 260.5 kB
  • After compression 259.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 593 B

  • Original 170.8 kB
  • After minification 170.8 kB
  • After compression 170.2 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. Outposts.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (49%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Outposts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

outposts.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

outposts.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

outposts.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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