Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

harlech.com

Harlech in North Wales Tourism and Holiday Cottages

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

546 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

harlech.com screenshot

About Website

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

Spectacularly sited Harlech Castle seems to grow naturally from the rock on which it is perched. Like an all seeing sentinel, it gazes out across land and sea, keeping a watchful eye over Snowdonia

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harlech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 546 ms and then it took 3.1 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

harlech.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harlech.com

546 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

mm_css_menu.js

336 ms

harlech.css

38 ms

adsbygoogle.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Harlech.com, 18% (10 requests) were made to Cf.bstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Harlech.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Harlech.com 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 28.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Harlech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 362 B

  • Original 322.7 kB
  • After minification 322.7 kB
  • After compression 322.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. Harlech.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (64%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harlech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

harlech.com accessibility score

76

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

harlech.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

harlech.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Harlech.com 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 Harlech.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

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