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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

canalrace.org.uk

Canalrace C.I.C. | Non-stop, low-key, 100 mile-plus UK ultra races

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

501 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Canalrace content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about canalrace.org.uk

100 mile-plus, low-cost, low-key, non-stop, towpath ultra running races in the UK. The 2025 not-for-profit three ultra race series “The Canalslam” totals over 400 miles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canalrace.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 501 ms and then it took 4.2 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

canalrace.org.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canalrace.org.uk

501 ms

buttons_v6.css

503 ms

select2.min.css

43 ms

5xjri.css

269 ms

5xjri.css

278 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Canalrace.org.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) belongs to the original domain Canalrace.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 243.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canalrace.org.uk main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 89.9 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 106.2 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 89.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Canalrace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 238.1 kB
  • After minification 238.1 kB
  • After compression 185.9 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 52.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 176.5 kB
  • After minification 176.3 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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. Canalrace.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (73%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canalrace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

canalrace.org.uk

canalrace.org.uk

501 ms

buttons_v6.css

buttons_v6.css

503 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

43 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

269 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

278 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

585 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

299 ms

style.css

style.css

365 ms

all.css

all.css

50 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

373 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

391 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

520 ms

v4-shims.css

v4-shims.css

60 ms

5xjri.js

5xjri.js

558 ms

5xjri.js

5xjri.js

534 ms

hjf9q.css

hjf9q.css

471 ms

api.js

api.js

43 ms

js

js

65 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

421 ms

5xjri.css

5xjri.css

513 ms

frontend-builder-global-functions.js

frontend-builder-global-functions.js

546 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

547 ms

canalrace.js

canalrace.js

563 ms

jquery.mobile.custom.min.js

jquery.mobile.custom.min.js

593 ms

custom.js

custom.js

730 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

728 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

729 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

729 ms

frontend-builder-scripts.js

frontend-builder-scripts.js

843 ms

common.js

common.js

730 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

731 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

909 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

743 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

842 ms

jquery.easypiechart.js

jquery.easypiechart.js

859 ms

et_shortcodes_frontend.js

et_shortcodes_frontend.js

859 ms

pkc3wpd.css

pkc3wpd.css

130 ms

p.css

p.css

25 ms

gas_street.jpg

gas_street.jpg

590 ms

canalrace_logo_new2.svg

canalrace_logo_new2.svg

339 ms

GUCR_header_logo_mobile-1.png

GUCR_header_logo_mobile-1.png

448 ms

GUCR-front1-1026x675.jpg

GUCR-front1-1026x675.jpg

533 ms

KACR_header_logo_mobile.png

KACR_header_logo_mobile.png

405 ms

KACR-front1-1026x675.jpg

KACR-front1-1026x675.jpg

539 ms

LLCR_header_logo_mobile.png

LLCR_header_logo_mobile.png

499 ms

LLCR-front2-1024x678.jpg

LLCR-front2-1024x678.jpg

573 ms

WRCR_header_logo_mobile.png

WRCR_header_logo_mobile.png

779 ms

WRCR-front-1.jpg

WRCR-front-1.jpg

671 ms

d

d

108 ms

d

d

120 ms

d

d

120 ms

modules.ttf

modules.ttf

577 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

118 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

157 ms

icomoon.svg

icomoon.svg

470 ms

Accessibility Review

canalrace.org.uk accessibility score

69

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

canalrace.org.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

canalrace.org.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Canalrace.org.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 Canalrace.org.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

canalrace.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Canalrace. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: