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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

travelblogger.co.uk

Travel Blogs | Holiday Reviews | Sightseeing Guides

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Travel Blogger content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about travelblogger.co.uk

Travel Blogger UK is the home of blogging for travellers from all over the world. A great place for to stay in touch while on the road, share photos, write stories, and keep family and friends updated...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travelblogger.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travelblogger.co.uk performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

travelblogger.co.uk

272 ms

analytics.js

67 ms

playback.bundle.js

130 ms

wombat.js

188 ms

banner-styles.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Travelblogger.co.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Web.archive.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Analytics.archive.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (850 ms) relates to the external source Web.archive.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

261.3 kB

After Optimization

177.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Travelblogger.co.uk main page is 261.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 143.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 48.7 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 41.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 50.7 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. Travel Blogger images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 108.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 34.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Travelblogger.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (79%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travel Blogger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

travelblogger.co.uk accessibility score

88

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.

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

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

travelblogger.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

travelblogger.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Document uses plugins

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 Travelblogger.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 Travelblogger.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 Travel Blogger. 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: