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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cottagesforu.com

Holiday Cottages to Rent - UK Self-Catering Holidays | cottages.com

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

617 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cottagesforu.com homepage info - get ready to check Cottages Foru best content right away, or after learning these important things about cottagesforu.com

Browse over 21,000 holiday holiday cottages in the UK. Find hot tub cottages, dog friendly holidays, short breaks and more amazing self-catering accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottagesforu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 3.7 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

cottagesforu.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,380 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cottagesforu.com

271 ms

www.cottages4you.co.uk

258 ms

www.cottages.com

155 ms

icons.css

27 ms

normalize.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cottagesforu.com, 42% (45 requests) were made to Cottages.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to Img.chooseacottage.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (828 ms) relates to the external source Cottages.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottagesforu.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 116.6 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 118.8 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 24.3 kB, which is 17% 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 116.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 67.8 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. Cottages Foru images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 953.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 445.5 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 953.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Cottagesforu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (62%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottages Foru. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cottagesforu.com

cottagesforu.com

271 ms

www.cottages4you.co.uk

www.cottages4you.co.uk

258 ms

www.cottages.com

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155 ms

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27 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

65 ms

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34 ms

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29 ms

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45 ms

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32 ms

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57 ms

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63 ms

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72 ms

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79 ms

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84 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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57 ms

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58 ms

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57 ms

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57 ms

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58 ms

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59 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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68 ms

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614 ms

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419 ms

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67 ms

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Accessibility Review

cottagesforu.com accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

cottagesforu.com 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

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

cottagesforu.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cottagesforu.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cottagesforu.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

cottagesforu.com

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