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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dakarchallenge.co.uk

Home | Dakar Challenge

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

dakarchallenge.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit dakarchallenge.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Dakar Challenge content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dakarchallenge.co.uk

The original Banger Rally Challenge, that has spawned so many others. We started in December 2002 and have grown to be the premier Banger Rally Challenge.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dakarchallenge.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dakarchallenge.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dakarchallenge.co.uk

1020 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

81 ms

style.min.css

162 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

231 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Dakarchallenge.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Dakarchallenge.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dakarchallenge.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 825.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.5 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. 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 40.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 825.7 kB
  • After minification 666.1 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. Obviously, Dakar Challenge needs image optimization as it can save up to 159.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 404.5 kB
  • After minification 404.5 kB
  • After compression 378.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 85.3 kB

  • Original 278.8 kB
  • After minification 278.8 kB
  • After compression 193.6 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. Dakarchallenge.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (86%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dakar Challenge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.dakarchallenge.co.uk

www.dakarchallenge.co.uk

1020 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

81 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

162 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

cookie-law-info-public.css

231 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

234 ms

esf-custom-fonts.css

esf-custom-fonts.css

232 ms

esf-free-popup.css

esf-free-popup.css

232 ms

easy-facebook-likebox-frontend.css

easy-facebook-likebox-frontend.css

388 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

833 ms

style.css

style.css

307 ms

style.css

style.css

314 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

317 ms

flaticon.css

flaticon.css

319 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

460 ms

animate.css

animate.css

416 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

413 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

414 ms

slick.css

slick.css

470 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

473 ms

owl.transitions.css

owl.transitions.css

473 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

474 ms

style.css

style.css

538 ms

style.css

style.css

550 ms

esf-insta-frontend.css

esf-insta-frontend.css

710 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

1136 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

636 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

618 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

617 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

699 ms

esf-free-popup.min.js

esf-free-popup.min.js

699 ms

public.js

public.js

728 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

780 ms

esf-insta-public.js

esf-insta-public.js

780 ms

copypastesubscribeformlogic.js

copypastesubscribeformlogic.js

51 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

786 ms

jquery-plugin-collection.js

jquery-plugin-collection.js

869 ms

script.js

script.js

857 ms

api.js

api.js

34 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

857 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

795 ms

css

css

36 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

71 ms

logo-150x150.png

logo-150x150.png

491 ms

Screen-Shot-2015-09-07-at-14.43.46.png

Screen-Shot-2015-09-07-at-14.43.46.png

559 ms

desert-1748462_1920.jpg

desert-1748462_1920.jpg

633 ms

like.php

like.php

222 ms

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107 ms

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108 ms

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128 ms

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129 ms

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pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7Z1xlEA.ttf

142 ms

collect

collect

68 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

95 ms

js

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84 ms

dMKFjc_Fowr.js

dMKFjc_Fowr.js

92 ms

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FEppCFCt76d.png

83 ms

Accessibility Review

dakarchallenge.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

dakarchallenge.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

dakarchallenge.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ZX

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dakarchallenge.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Dakarchallenge.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

dakarchallenge.co.uk

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