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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

Hot Air Balloon Rides UK | Balloons Over Britain

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit balloonsoverbritain.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Balloons Over Britain content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balloonsoverbritain.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

218 ms

www.balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

1345 ms

46b6989c2e4889fc944bbc15c8dc87c8.css

194 ms

330c7891154e0e41c01c3aab8bb22da6.css

588 ms

10b0c5d811927044cb94eb895d00ea24.js

899 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Balloonsoverbritain.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Server4.web-stat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Balloonsoverbritain.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balloonsoverbritain.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 22.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Balloons Over Britain images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 8.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 149.3 kB
  • After minification 122.8 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. Balloonsoverbritain.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 127.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (26%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balloons Over Britain. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

218 ms

www.balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

www.balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

1345 ms

46b6989c2e4889fc944bbc15c8dc87c8.css

46b6989c2e4889fc944bbc15c8dc87c8.css

194 ms

330c7891154e0e41c01c3aab8bb22da6.css

330c7891154e0e41c01c3aab8bb22da6.css

588 ms

10b0c5d811927044cb94eb895d00ea24.js

10b0c5d811927044cb94eb895d00ea24.js

899 ms

wtslog.js

wtslog.js

47 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

14 ms

bkg_image_two.jpg

bkg_image_two.jpg

790 ms

mpr-webfont.woff

mpr-webfont.woff

109 ms

count6.pl

count6.pl

90 ms

3279.js

3279.js

13 ms

img_logo.png

img_logo.png

152 ms

offer-2015.jpg

offer-2015.jpg

216 ms

slideshow-tooltip-top.png

slideshow-tooltip-top.png

186 ms

banner-1.jpg

banner-1.jpg

207 ms

banner-2.jpg

banner-2.jpg

529 ms

banner-3.jpg

banner-3.jpg

424 ms

cards.png

cards.png

285 ms

img_btn-find-out-more.jpg

img_btn-find-out-more.jpg

306 ms

voucher-weekday-morning_1.png

voucher-weekday-morning_1.png

426 ms

voucher-weekday.png

voucher-weekday.png

482 ms

voucher-anytime_1.png

voucher-anytime_1.png

410 ms

voucher-anytime-premium_1.png

voucher-anytime-premium_1.png

515 ms

voucher-sunrise-exclusive-for-two.png

voucher-sunrise-exclusive-for-two.png

520 ms

voucher-sunrise-exclusive-for-four.png

voucher-sunrise-exclusive-for-four.png

632 ms

cards.png

cards.png

531 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

bkg_header.png

bkg_header.png

507 ms

bkg_footer.png

bkg_footer.png

540 ms

bkg_header.jpg

bkg_header.jpg

544 ms

bkg_link-right-strip.png

bkg_link-right-strip.png

556 ms

bkg_basket.png

bkg_basket.png

560 ms

bkg_nav-link.png

bkg_nav-link.png

594 ms

bkg_drop-down.png

bkg_drop-down.png

627 ms

bkg_call.png

bkg_call.png

631 ms

slideshow-background.jpg

slideshow-background.jpg

650 ms

bkg_form.jpg

bkg_form.jpg

650 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

bg_local-voucher.png

bg_local-voucher.png

593 ms

bg_national-voucher.png

bg_national-voucher.png

634 ms

bkg_button.png

bkg_button.png

665 ms

bkg_twitter.png

bkg_twitter.png

669 ms

slideshow-buttons.png

slideshow-buttons.png

693 ms

mpsb-webfont.woff

mpsb-webfont.woff

699 ms

39 ms

BalloonsOverBri-tweets.txt

BalloonsOverBri-tweets.txt

687 ms

37 ms

c073ee25e37423fd9c07446d59f24eee.css

c073ee25e37423fd9c07446d59f24eee.css

100 ms

bkg_select.png

bkg_select.png

100 ms

img_selectbox-arrow.gif

img_selectbox-arrow.gif

101 ms

Accessibility Review

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk accessibility score

78

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk SEO score

81

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

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 Balloonsoverbritain.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 Balloonsoverbritain.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

balloonsoverbritain.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balloons Over Britain. 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: