Access bradtguides.com. Bradt Guides | The world’s leading independent travel publisher

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,990 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

bradtguides.com

278 ms

www.bradtguides.com

677 ms

styles.css

100 ms

foundation.css

257 ms

foundation-icons.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Bradtguides.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bradtguides.com.

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Bradtguides.com main page is 5.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

Original 79.2 kB
After minification 59.8 kB
After compression 10.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.5 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 69.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 117.8 kB

Original 4.4 MB
After minification 4.3 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. Bradt Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 730.8 kB

Original 972.3 kB
After minification 803.8 kB
After compression 241.5 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 730.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 254.6 kB

Original 296.6 kB
After minification 228.9 kB
After compression 42.0 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. Bradtguides.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bradt Guides. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Bradtguides.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 Bradtguides.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

bradtguides.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bradt Guides. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Bradt Guides | The world’s leading independent travel publisher

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

bradtguides.com

www.bradtguides.com

styles.css

foundation.css

foundation-icons.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

bradtguides.com

www.bradtguides.com

styles.css

foundation.css

foundation-icons.css

widgets.css

bradtguides.css

flags.css

style.css

global.css

mobile-menu.css

firsty-tables-mobile.css

sagePaySuite.css

prototype.js

ccard.js

validation.js

builder.js

effects.js

dragdrop.js

controls.js

slider.js

js.js

form.js

menu.js

translate.js

cookies.js

jquery.1.5.1.js

jqueryNoconfig.js

jquery.slides.min.js

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

modernizr.foundation.js

jquery.foundation.topbar.js

jquery.foundation.mediaQueryToggle.js

jquery.foundation.navigation.js

jquery.foundation.alerts.js

jquery.foundation.buttons.js

jquery.foundation.forms.js

beetailer.js

buttons.js

jquery.foundation.reveal.js

jquery.foundation.tooltips.js

jquery.foundation.orbit.js

jquery.foundation.accordion.js