Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk

East Greystone Farm Cottages - County Durham Holiday Cottages

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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County Durham Holiday Cottages, delightful self catering holiday cottages, set in a peaceful countryside location

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Key Findings

We analyzed Durham-holidaycottages.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 5.2 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

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk

2610 ms

www.durham-holidaycottages.co.uk

746 ms

default.css

362 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

172 ms

skin.css

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Durham-holidaycottages.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Widget.freetobook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Durham-holidaycottages.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 790.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Durham-holidaycottages.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 129.3 kB

  • Original 163.9 kB
  • After minification 156.1 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 129.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 362.4 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, Durham Holiday Cottages needs image optimization as it can save up to 362.4 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 218.1 kB

  • Original 796.6 kB
  • After minification 796.6 kB
  • After compression 578.5 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 218.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 184.4 kB
  • After minification 182.7 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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. Durham-holidaycottages.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.7 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (65%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Durham Holiday Cottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

durham-holidaycottages.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Durham-holidaycottages.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 Durham-holidaycottages.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 description is not detected on the main page of Durham Holiday Cottages. 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: