Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

headwater.co.uk

Cycling Holidays and Walking Holidays in Europe | Headwater

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

headwater.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to headwater.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Headwater best content right away, or after learning these important things about headwater.co.uk

Headwater Holidays specialise in walking, cycling, cross country skiing and relaxed activity holidays throughout Europe, the Med and Bermuda. Click for great value activity holidays.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Headwater.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 5.1 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

headwater.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.headwater.com

162 ms

www.headwater.com

427 ms

gtm.js

102 ms

c1e07302a29063ec6c0632eb23cd28f1.js

50 ms

styles-core-v53.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Headwater.co.uk, 13% (16 requests) were made to Images.headwater.com and 10% (13 requests) were made to Headwater.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (674 ms) relates to the external source Feefo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

10.8 MB

After Optimization

10.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Headwater.co.uk main page is 10.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 73.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 10.6 MB
  • After minification 10.5 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. Headwater images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 72.6 kB
  • After compression 55.9 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 16.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Headwater.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (12%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Headwater. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

headwater.co.uk accessibility score

72

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

headwater.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

headwater.co.uk SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Headwater.co.uk 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 Headwater.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 data is detected on the main page of Headwater. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: