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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

essentialtravel.co.uk

Essential Travel

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

643 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

413 ms

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About Website

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

Your online home for great Travel Essentials. Get cheap Travel Insurance, Ski Insurance, Airport Parking, Hotels, Lounges and Car Hire from EssentialTravel.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essentialtravel.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 643 ms and then it took 3.2 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

essentialtravel.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialtravel.co.uk

643 ms

590790949.js

288 ms

new.datepicker.css

365 ms

default.css

337 ms

all.css

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Essentialtravel.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Images.essentialtravel.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) relates to the external source Images.essentialtravel.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (67%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

645.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Essentialtravel.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 132.4 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 166.2 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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 132.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 144.5 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. Essential Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 948.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 402.4 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 948.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 258.4 kB

  • Original 314.2 kB
  • After minification 285.7 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Essentialtravel.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 258.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (67%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essential Travel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialtravel.co.uk

www.essentialtravel.co.uk

643 ms

590790949.js

590790949.js

288 ms

new.datepicker.css

new.datepicker.css

365 ms

default.css

default.css

337 ms

all.css

all.css

342 ms

all-responsive.css

all-responsive.css

339 ms

responsive-homepage.css

responsive-homepage.css

449 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

197 ms

image-slider.css

image-slider.css

333 ms

jquery.1.8.2.min.js

jquery.1.8.2.min.js

333 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

114 ms

slides.min.jquery.js

slides.min.jquery.js

417 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

422 ms

jquery.foundation.orbit.js

jquery.foundation.orbit.js

477 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

444 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

485 ms

image-slider.js

image-slider.js

520 ms

js

js

112 ms

jquery.featureCarousel.min.js

jquery.featureCarousel.min.js

543 ms

email-cookie.js

email-cookie.js

549 ms

tracker.min.js

tracker.min.js

80 ms

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684 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

30 ms

pinterest.js

pinterest.js

502 ms

event

event

36 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

65 ms

www-footer-awards-2012.gif

www-footer-awards-2012.gif

628 ms

ico2.gif

ico2.gif

630 ms

ico3.gif

ico3.gif

629 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

718 ms

airport-hotels-homepage-banner.jpg

airport-hotels-homepage-banner.jpg

23 ms

12-years-icon.gif

12-years-icon.gif

22 ms

1awards-2014.png

1awards-2014.png

24 ms

street-index.jpg

street-index.jpg

24 ms

weymouth.jpg

weymouth.jpg

25 ms

tracker.js

tracker.js

624 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

24 ms

separator1.gif

separator1.gif

29 ms

mobile-nav-bar.png

mobile-nav-bar.png

25 ms

btn.gif

btn.gif

25 ms

separator1.png

separator1.png

31 ms

www-slide-luggage.jpg

www-slide-luggage.jpg

25 ms

calendar.gif

calendar.gif

26 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

316 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

108 ms

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PTERQ-XFSCG-MB7FC-BDJ3E-JYRLR

282 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

347 ms

icon-review.png

icon-review.png

226 ms

bigstar.png

bigstar.png

225 ms

document-large-icon.png

document-large-icon.png

226 ms

like.php

like.php

407 ms

info-large-icon.png

info-large-icon.png

213 ms

review-section.png

review-section.png

213 ms

bg-footer-container-b.gif

bg-footer-container-b.gif

226 ms

bg-footer-container-t.gif

bg-footer-container-t.gif

247 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

223 ms

all.js

all.js

226 ms

hxtrack.js

hxtrack.js

568 ms

product.data.lo.en.js

product.data.lo.en.js

586 ms

hxtrack.js

hxtrack.js

645 ms

hxtrack.js

hxtrack.js

617 ms

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233 ms

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47 ms

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rotator-black.png

65 ms

pause-black.png

pause-black.png

65 ms

right-arrow.png

right-arrow.png

64 ms

left-arrow.png

left-arrow.png

66 ms

bullets.jpg

bullets.jpg

97 ms

border.png

border.png

96 ms

controls.png

controls.png

97 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

96 ms

168 ms

orion.min.js

orion.min.js

210 ms

config.js

config.js

147 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

_Incapsula_Resource

_Incapsula_Resource

45 ms

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37 ms

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99 ms

174 ms

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info.json

184 ms

121 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

156 ms

68 ms

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159 ms

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177 ms

image.gif

image.gif

128 ms

jot.html

jot.html

3 ms

Accessibility Review

essentialtravel.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

essentialtravel.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

essentialtravel.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

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 Essentialtravel.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 Essentialtravel.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

essentialtravel.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Essential Travel. 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: