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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

haystravel.co.uk

Hays Travel | Secure Holidays 2024 / 2025 | UK's Largest Independent Travel Agent - Hays Travel

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to haystravel.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Hays Travel best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about haystravel.co.uk

As the UK's largest independent travel agent, Hays Travel offers unparallelled holiday choice and award-winning service across nearly 500 high street branches, personal travel consultants and onl...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Haystravel.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 5.8 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

haystravel.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,590 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.655

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

haystravel.co.uk

80 ms

haystravel.co.uk

1682 ms

head.js

154 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

31 ms

js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Haystravel.co.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Widget.haystravel.holidaywebtech.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Haystravel.co.uk main page is 3.2 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 147.6 kB

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 42.6 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 147.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 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. Hays Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 192.8 kB

  • Original 457.0 kB
  • After minification 456.9 kB
  • After compression 264.2 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 192.8 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hays 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

haystravel.co.uk

haystravel.co.uk

80 ms

haystravel.co.uk

haystravel.co.uk

1682 ms

head.js

head.js

154 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

31 ms

js

js

86 ms

main.js

main.js

2298 ms

main.css

main.css

502 ms

global.js

global.js

327 ms

js

js

84 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

62 ms

js

js

366 ms

js

js

688 ms

js

js

576 ms

destination

destination

671 ms

landing

landing

994 ms

Peggys_Cove_Sunset.jpg

Peggys_Cove_Sunset.jpg

1040 ms

index.html

index.html

284 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

662 ms

travel-money-panel.png

travel-money-panel.png

660 ms

1633363286_haystravelmoneycardpayment-375x390.jpg

1633363286_haystravelmoneycardpayment-375x390.jpg

304 ms

insurance-mobile-375x390-1033801318.jpg

insurance-mobile-375x390-1033801318.jpg

304 ms

1685010409_tent-palmanova01.jpg

1685010409_tent-palmanova01.jpg

778 ms

1550142712_hesperia-bristol-playa01.jpg

1550142712_hesperia-bristol-playa01.jpg

778 ms

1539014727_sunconnect-1.jpg

1539014727_sunconnect-1.jpg

778 ms

1658999768_barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort01.jpg

1658999768_barcelo-lanzarote-active-resort01.jpg

778 ms

1534508633_eftaliaoceane01.jpg

1534508633_eftaliaoceane01.jpg

934 ms

1548413870_gf-fanabe-01.jpg

1548413870_gf-fanabe-01.jpg

964 ms

1534408665_sol-pelicanos-ocas01.jpg

1534408665_sol-pelicanos-ocas01.jpg

1016 ms

jet2-big-summer-sale-web-1440x400-min.jpg

jet2-big-summer-sale-web-1440x400-min.jpg

942 ms

toy-promo-banner-1440x400-min.jpg

toy-promo-banner-1440x400-min.jpg

961 ms

1582027740_azuline-hotel-coral-beach01.jpg

1582027740_azuline-hotel-coral-beach01.jpg

1098 ms

zante-plaza-hotel-apartments-01-min.jpg

zante-plaza-hotel-apartments-01-min.jpg

1512 ms

playa-olid-1.jpg

playa-olid-1.jpg

1725 ms

sol-palmanova-01-min.jpg

sol-palmanova-01-min.jpg

1744 ms

careers-1440x400-tinified-min.jpg

careers-1440x400-tinified-min.jpg

1742 ms

on-sale-1920x754-desktop-min.jpg

on-sale-1920x754-desktop-min.jpg

1809 ms

hays-visit-us-banner-min.jpg

hays-visit-us-banner-min.jpg

1811 ms

Nova+Scotia+Canada_Horizontal_Blue.png

Nova+Scotia+Canada_Horizontal_Blue.png

875 ms

events.js

events.js

813 ms

Gotham-Book.woff

Gotham-Book.woff

1721 ms

Gotham-Medium.woff

Gotham-Medium.woff

1824 ms

Gotham-Bold.woff

Gotham-Bold.woff

1945 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

697 ms

main.js

main.js

152 ms

src=12547909;type=retarget;cat=homep0;ord=488533958210;npa=1;pscdl=denied;gtm=45fe4510z8868857282za201;gcs=G100;gcd=13q3q3q3q5;dma_cps=-;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fhaystravel.co.uk%2F

src=12547909;type=retarget;cat=homep0;ord=488533958210;npa=1;pscdl=denied;gtm=45fe4510z8868857282za201;gcs=G100;gcd=13q3q3q3q5;dma_cps=-;dma=0;epver=2;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fhaystravel.co.uk%2F

227 ms

959b3ae9-eab2-43d4-943b-2b92793dd840.json

959b3ae9-eab2-43d4-943b-2b92793dd840.json

42 ms

location

location

52 ms

main.MTIyYzc3NzllMQ.js

main.MTIyYzc3NzllMQ.js

37 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

36 ms

Accessibility Review

haystravel.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

haystravel.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

haystravel.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Haystravel.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 Haystravel.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

haystravel.co.uk

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