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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

hertfordcastle.co.uk

Hertford Castle | Weddings, Corporate & Private Hire Venue

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

806 ms

hertfordcastle.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

The Beautiful Hertford Castle is a historic Grade One listed building located in Hertfordshire and offering wedding and private venue hire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hertfordcastle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hertfordcastle.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hertfordcastle.co.uk

516 ms

style.css

161 ms

css

40 ms

icons.svg

275 ms

main-logo.png

395 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Hertfordcastle.co.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Hertfordcastle.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.8 kB (0%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Hertfordcastle.co.uk main page is 5.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 22.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Hertford Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hertford Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.hertfordcastle.co.uk

www.hertfordcastle.co.uk

516 ms

style.css

style.css

161 ms

css

css

40 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

275 ms

main-logo.png

main-logo.png

395 ms

360-degree-icon.svg

360-degree-icon.svg

276 ms

ruth-jake-196-image-main.jpg

ruth-jake-196-image-main.jpg

472 ms

tg-tunes-1-image-main.jpg

tg-tunes-1-image-main.jpg

396 ms

e5a6645-image-main.jpg

e5a6645-image-main.jpg

430 ms

28839194563-037e49e1e7-o-2-image-main-image-main.webp

28839194563-037e49e1e7-o-2-image-main-image-main.webp

630 ms

bohohenparty-289-1-image-main-image-main.webp

bohohenparty-289-1-image-main-image-main.webp

472 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

25 ms

core.js

core.js

473 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

477 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

dji-0434-background-main.jpg

dji-0434-background-main.jpg

894 ms

castle-image-main.jpg

castle-image-main.jpg

840 ms

bride-and-groom-outside-image-main.jpg

bride-and-groom-outside-image-main.jpg

919 ms

castle-side-image-main.jpg

castle-side-image-main.jpg

1079 ms

grounds-image-main.jpg

grounds-image-main.jpg

844 ms

castle-weddin-image-main.jpg

castle-weddin-image-main.jpg

996 ms

inside-wedding-set-u-image-main.jpg

inside-wedding-set-u-image-main.jpg

997 ms

ceremony-image-main.jpg

ceremony-image-main.jpg

1001 ms

bride-groom-confetti-image-main.jpg

bride-groom-confetti-image-main.jpg

1136 ms

bride-and-groom-front-castle-image-main.jpg

bride-and-groom-front-castle-image-main.jpg

1156 ms

night-back-castle-party-image-main.jpg

night-back-castle-party-image-main.jpg

1232 ms

night-front-image-main.jpg

night-front-image-main.jpg

1156 ms

dji-0384-image-main.jpg

dji-0384-image-main.jpg

1316 ms

img-1601-image-main.jpg

img-1601-image-main.jpg

1395 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Hw5aX8.ttf

40 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCu173w5aX8.ttf

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCu173w5aX8.ttf

53 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aX8.ttf

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aX8.ttf

54 ms

js

js

71 ms

print.css

print.css

81 ms

Accessibility Review

hertfordcastle.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hertfordcastle.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hertfordcastle.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Hertfordcastle.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 Hertfordcastle.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

hertfordcastle.co.uk

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