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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

drive-alive.co.uk

Driving in Europe. Plan your self-drive holiday. European driving laws.

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

drive-alive.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit drive-alive.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Drive Alive content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about drive-alive.co.uk

Plan your self-drive motoring holiday in Europe. Route planning, information about driving abroad, ferry crossings, hotels, holiday homes and apartments

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Key Findings

We analyzed Drive-alive.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 3 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

drive-alive.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

drive-alive.co.uk

277 ms

www.drive-alive.co.uk

612 ms

adsbygoogle.js

149 ms

js

110 ms

JavaLinkDatabase.asp

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Drive-alive.co.uk, 13% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (744 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Drive-alive.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. Images take 765.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 25.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 765.8 kB
  • After minification 756.9 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. Drive Alive images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 616.2 kB
  • After minification 616.1 kB
  • After compression 591.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Drive-alive.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (56%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Drive Alive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

drive-alive.co.uk

drive-alive.co.uk

277 ms

www.drive-alive.co.uk

www.drive-alive.co.uk

612 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

149 ms

js

js

110 ms

JavaLinkDatabase.asp

JavaLinkDatabase.asp

315 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

66 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

67 ms

bootstrap-da-custom_v4.css

bootstrap-da-custom_v4.css

391 ms

drivealive_v4.css

drivealive_v4.css

404 ms

write_topmenu_bootstrap_v4.js

write_topmenu_bootstrap_v4.js

403 ms

jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js

58 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

75 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

522 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

451 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

68 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

68 ms

da_logo_trans.gif

da_logo_trans.gif

124 ms

da-home-cover-v4-1.jpg

da-home-cover-v4-1.jpg

447 ms

da-home-live-hotel-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-hotel-v4-1.jpg

187 ms

da-home-live-ferry-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-ferry-v4-1.jpg

187 ms

da-home-live-selfcatering-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-selfcatering-v4-1.jpg

311 ms

da-home-live-camping-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-camping-v4-1.jpg

196 ms

da-home-live-car-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-car-v4-1.jpg

200 ms

da-home-live-driving-v4-1.jpg

da-home-live-driving-v4-1.jpg

364 ms

webnameforsale.png

webnameforsale.png

310 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

228 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

ga.js

ga.js

42 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

35 ms

ads

ads

518 ms

ads

ads

744 ms

ads

ads

742 ms

dcmads.js

dcmads.js

28 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

20 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

24 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

27 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

14 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

233 ms

icon.png

icon.png

13 ms

3b0c1a1c8750041eb27603629860e89a.js

3b0c1a1c8750041eb27603629860e89a.js

46 ms

load_preloaded_resource.js

load_preloaded_resource.js

39 ms

f11bfab4e3c942216447974439595ef6.js

f11bfab4e3c942216447974439595ef6.js

61 ms

bbcd6bf18c20baa1b2adeb195de9b551.js

bbcd6bf18c20baa1b2adeb195de9b551.js

173 ms

reactive_library.js

reactive_library.js

362 ms

s

s

124 ms

css

css

60 ms

activeview

activeview

75 ms

activeview

activeview

132 ms

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19 ms

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132 ms

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133 ms

Accessibility Review

drive-alive.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

drive-alive.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

drive-alive.co.uk SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Drive-alive.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 Drive-alive.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

drive-alive.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Drive Alive. 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: