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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

greatcycling.com

Bike Tours Europe - Bicycle Tours in Italy & France | Great Cycling

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

80 ms

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About Website

Visit greatcycling.com now to see the best up-to-date Great Cycling content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about greatcycling.com

GreatCycling is a family-run business whose owners are passionate about European cycling. Custom-made international biking vacations for the perfect bike trip!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatcycling.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatcycling.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatcycling.com

156 ms

www.greatcycling.com

413 ms

style.css

79 ms

jquery.1.3.2.min.js

231 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

302 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Greatcycling.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (679 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatcycling.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

541.6 kB

After Optimization

433.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatcycling.com main page is 541.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 290.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. 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 18.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 290.9 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. Great Cycling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 203.3 kB
  • After minification 200.3 kB
  • After compression 115.0 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 88.3 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Greatcycling.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (50%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Cycling. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

greatcycling.com

greatcycling.com

156 ms

www.greatcycling.com

www.greatcycling.com

413 ms

style.css

style.css

79 ms

jquery.1.3.2.min.js

jquery.1.3.2.min.js

231 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

jquery.cycle.min.js

302 ms

jquery.label.over.js

jquery.label.over.js

230 ms

jquery.corner.js

jquery.corner.js

230 ms

main.js

main.js

236 ms

cv.css

cv.css

384 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

380 ms

styles.css

styles.css

328 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

328 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

537 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

379 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

491 ms

html5shiv.min.js

html5shiv.min.js

387 ms

respond.js

respond.js

456 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

457 ms

cv.js

cv.js

462 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

463 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

534 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

534 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

568 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

241 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

47 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

82 ms

nav_italy.gif

nav_italy.gif

84 ms

nav_france.gif

nav_france.gif

84 ms

nav_spain.gif

nav_spain.gif

84 ms

nav_custom.gif

nav_custom.gif

83 ms

nav_triathlon.gif

nav_triathlon.gif

81 ms

nav_photo.gif

nav_photo.gif

159 ms

nav_about.gif

nav_about.gif

159 ms

nav_contact.gif

nav_contact.gif

161 ms

img_search.gif

img_search.gif

163 ms

txt_welcome.gif

txt_welcome.gif

161 ms

Ernie_2019-e1567898646860.jpg

Ernie_2019-e1567898646860.jpg

163 ms

Marquee_rides_Monte_e_Mare.jpg

Marquee_rides_Monte_e_Mare.jpg

310 ms

Marquee_rides_SouthernTuscany.jpg

Marquee_rides_SouthernTuscany.jpg

237 ms

Sardinia_marquee.jpg

Sardinia_marquee.jpg

312 ms

Lombardy_marquee.jpg

Lombardy_marquee.jpg

679 ms

img_photo_gallery.jpg

img_photo_gallery.jpg

241 ms

img_faqs.jpg

img_faqs.jpg

241 ms

img_signup.gif

img_signup.gif

314 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

js

js

65 ms

Accessibility Review

greatcycling.com accessibility score

71

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

greatcycling.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

greatcycling.com SEO score

71

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

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 Greatcycling.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 Greatcycling.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

greatcycling.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great Cycling. 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: