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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

visitnewcastlegateshead.com

NewcastleGateshead’s official tourist… | NewcastleGateshead

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

908 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

737 ms

About Website

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NewcastleGateshead’s official tourist information site with information about what to see and do, what's on and where to eat and drink in the region.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitnewcastlegateshead.com page load time and found that the first response time was 908 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitnewcastlegateshead.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.newcastlegateshead.com

908 ms

CookieWarning_v63590719851.css

160 ms

style2_v63593301241.css

250 ms

style_v63593301241.css

275 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker-en.js

424 ms

Our browser made a total of 169 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Visitnewcastlegateshead.com, 27% (46 requests) were made to D3b4s6vywj2q8g.cloudfront.net and 14% (23 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Newcastlegateshead.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 485.1 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Visitnewcastlegateshead.com 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. 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 969.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 121.8 kB

  • Original 157.7 kB
  • After minification 156.5 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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 121.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 969.4 kB
  • After minification 906.9 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 Newcastle Gateshead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 300.8 kB

  • Original 493.7 kB
  • After minification 493.5 kB
  • After compression 192.9 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 300.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (33%)

Requests Now

163

After Optimization

110

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 163 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Newcastle Gateshead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

visitnewcastlegateshead.com accessibility score

73

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

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

visitnewcastlegateshead.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

visitnewcastlegateshead.com SEO score

76

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Visitnewcastlegateshead.com 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 Visitnewcastlegateshead.com 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 Visit Newcastle Gateshead. 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: