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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

lakeofshadows.com

Donegal Hotel - Seaside Hotel in Donegal - Lake Of Shadows Hotel

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

530 ms

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About Website

Welcome to lakeofshadows.com homepage info - get ready to check Lake Of Shadows best content right away, or after learning these important things about lakeofshadows.com

This landmark boutique seaside hotel in the town of Buncrana has been operating for well over 30 years and is a favourite with both locals and visitors to Inishowen.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lakeofshadows.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.5 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

lakeofshadows.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lakeofshadows.com

1432 ms

css

43 ms

css

43 ms

thirdparty.css

30 ms

iconfonts.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Lakeofshadows.com, 41% (19 requests) were made to Myguestdiary-cdn-uploads.azureedge.net and 17% (8 requests) were made to Guestdiary-webassets-cdn.azureedge.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Lakeofshadows.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 920.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lakeofshadows.com main page is 3.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 98.2 kB

  • Original 116.4 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.5 kB, which is 12% 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 98.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 722.9 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Lake Of Shadows needs image optimization as it can save up to 722.9 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 98.8 kB

  • Original 348.7 kB
  • After minification 344.2 kB
  • After compression 249.9 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 98.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 331 B

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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. Lakeofshadows.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (36%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lake Of Shadows. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.lakeofshadows.com

www.lakeofshadows.com

1432 ms

css

css

43 ms

css

css

43 ms

thirdparty.css

thirdparty.css

30 ms

iconfonts.css

iconfonts.css

133 ms

design1.css

design1.css

39 ms

api.js

api.js

50 ms

css2

css2

43 ms

classic-061523.css

classic-061523.css

24 ms

thirdparty.min.js

thirdparty.min.js

11 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

19 ms

default.js

default.js

20 ms

en.js

en.js

21 ms

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259 ms

newsletter-plane.svg

newsletter-plane.svg

231 ms

googletranslate.png

googletranslate.png

61 ms

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71 ms

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__page__double-room-header-1.jpg

67 ms

__page__header-sitting-area.jpg

__page__header-sitting-area.jpg

74 ms

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__page__header_restaurant_002.jpg

67 ms

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__page__header-triple-room.jpg

71 ms

__page__header-wedding.jpg

__page__header-wedding.jpg

72 ms

__page__header_restaurant_001.jpg

__page__header_restaurant_001.jpg

71 ms

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_gallery_dining_table_setup.jpg

69 ms

_gallery_table_setup_1.jpg

_gallery_table_setup_1.jpg

102 ms

_gallery_triple_room.jpg

_gallery_triple_room.jpg

99 ms

_gallery_sitting_area_1_.jpg

_gallery_sitting_area_1_.jpg

97 ms

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__page__beachweb4.jpg

98 ms

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__page__kinnagoe_bay_03_web_size.jpg

97 ms

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__page__ballyliffin_golf_course_web_size_2_.jpg

125 ms

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_specialoffer_autumn_in_donegal_2_.png

128 ms

_misc__specialoffer_buncrana-shore-donegal-pic.donegalholidaycottages.jpg

_misc__specialoffer_buncrana-shore-donegal-pic.donegalholidaycottages.jpg

101 ms

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_specialoffer_untitled_design_3_.png

127 ms

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101 ms

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33 ms

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63 ms

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88 ms

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primary.woff

91 ms

icon_set_2.woff

icon_set_2.woff

123 ms

icon_set_1.woff

icon_set_1.woff

190 ms

place

place

244 ms

intuit-mc-rewards-text-dark.svg

intuit-mc-rewards-text-dark.svg

122 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

56 ms

js

js

54 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

5 ms

search.js

search.js

7 ms

Accessibility Review

lakeofshadows.com accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Best Practices

lakeofshadows.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

lakeofshadows.com SEO score

85

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lakeofshadows.com 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 Lakeofshadows.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Lake Of Shadows. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: