Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ionahostel.co.uk

The Green Shed. High quality accommodation on the Isle of Iona. Formerly Iona Hostel.

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

827 ms

ionahostel.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

The Green Shed, well-reviewed and recommended accommodation on the beautiful island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ionahostel.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 3 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

ionahostel.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.655

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.greenshediona.co.uk

222 ms

consolidated.css

181 ms

stacks.css

167 ms

stacks_page_page0.css

247 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ionahostel.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Widget.freetobook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Greenshediona.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 451.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

12.3 MB

After Optimization

11.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Ionahostel.co.uk main page is 12.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 12.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 451.7 kB

  • Original 12.2 MB
  • After minification 11.7 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. Iona Hostel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 144.2 kB
  • After minification 144.2 kB
  • After compression 144.1 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 11 (20%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iona Hostel. 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 from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ionahostel.co.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ionahostel.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ionahostel.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ionahostel.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 Ionahostel.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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