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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

cottagesforcouples.ie

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Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottagesforcouples.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 6.3 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

cottagesforcouples.ie performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cottagesforcouples.ie

1639 ms

style.css

259 ms

selectnav.min.js

174 ms

jff2ofl.js

52 ms

widget.css

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Cottagesforcouples.ie, 20% (21 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (7 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cottagesforcouples.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottagesforcouples.ie main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 64.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Cottages For Couples images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 191.0 kB

  • Original 284.1 kB
  • After minification 277.1 kB
  • After compression 93.1 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 191.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 109.7 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 111.2 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. Cottagesforcouples.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (57%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottages For Couples. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cottagesforcouples.ie

www.cottagesforcouples.ie

1639 ms

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style.css

259 ms

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174 ms

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52 ms

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207 ms

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205 ms

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205 ms

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238 ms

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6 ms

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261 ms

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262 ms

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272 ms

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273 ms

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328 ms

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23 ms

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606 ms

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362 ms

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359 ms

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419 ms

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519 ms

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446 ms

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362 ms

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377 ms

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471 ms

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5 ms

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416 ms

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468 ms

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491 ms

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518 ms

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568 ms

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568 ms

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62 ms

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522 ms

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30 ms

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20 ms

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412 ms

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Accessibility Review

cottagesforcouples.ie accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cottagesforcouples.ie best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cottagesforcouples.ie SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

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 Cottagesforcouples.ie 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 Cottagesforcouples.ie 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

cottagesforcouples.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cottages For Couples. 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: