Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

visitcotswolds.co.uk

The Cotswolds - official Visit Cotswolds tourist guide: B&Bs, Hotels, Cottages, Farms, Dining, Walking & Leisure

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

420 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

About Website

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Visit the Cotswolds - ideal tourist site for: accommodation, restaurants, tea-rooms, hotels, B&Bs, self-catering, holidays cottages, towns, events and attractions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitcotswolds.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 420 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitcotswolds.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitcotswolds.co.uk

420 ms

visitcotswolds.css

153 ms

bepronav.css

157 ms

carousel.js

157 ms

wfhlogo.jpg

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Visitcotswolds.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) belongs to the original domain Visitcotswolds.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

466.2 kB

After Optimization

441.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Visitcotswolds.co.uk main page is 466.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 441.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 12.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 441.0 kB
  • After minification 434.4 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. Visit Cotswolds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 974 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.0 kB
  • After compression 397 B

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 974 B or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Visitcotswolds.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Cotswolds. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

visitcotswolds.co.uk accessibility score

59

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

visitcotswolds.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

visitcotswolds.co.uk SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visitcotswolds.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 Visitcotswolds.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 Visit Cotswolds. 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: