Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

canoehire.co.uk

Canoeing the River Wye | Canoe Hire | want to canoe?

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

363 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

canoehire.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to canoehire.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Canoe Hire best content right away, or after learning these important things about canoehire.co.uk

Canoe and discover the beauty of the River Wye, with friends or family. Click to see the many routes available, from half a day's paddling to 5 days.

Visit canoehire.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Canoehire.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 363 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canoehire.co.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.105

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canoehire.co.uk

363 ms

zha8xjn.css

167 ms

all.css

47 ms

js

32 ms

plugin_styles.css

380 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Canoehire.co.uk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Canoehire.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 645.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

867.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Canoehire.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 597.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 82.6 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 103.4 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 82.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 443.1 kB
  • After minification 424.5 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. Canoe Hire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 241.5 kB

  • Original 597.5 kB
  • After minification 573.2 kB
  • After compression 356.1 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 241.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 302.8 kB

  • Original 366.0 kB
  • After minification 313.0 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Canoehire.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 302.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (73%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canoe Hire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

canoehire.co.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

canoehire.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

canoehire.co.uk SEO score

88

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 Canoehire.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 Canoehire.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

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