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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

lowthercastle.org

Stunning Lake District visitor attraction

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

lowthercastle.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Lowthercastle content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lowthercastle.org

Lowther Castle & Gardens is a stunning Lake District visitor attraction. Castle ruins, gardens, exhibition, huge adventure playground.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowthercastle.org page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lowthercastle.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lowthercastle.org

231 ms

lowthercastle.org

508 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

216 ms

styles.css

287 ms

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

292 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Lowthercastle.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Lowthercastle.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 552.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lowthercastle.org main page is 6.0 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 175.5 kB

  • Original 206.6 kB
  • After minification 206.3 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 175.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Lowthercastle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 332.7 kB

  • Original 946.1 kB
  • After minification 946.1 kB
  • After compression 613.5 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 332.7 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 134.3 kB
  • After minification 134.3 kB
  • After compression 132.5 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. Lowthercastle.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (68%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lowthercastle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lowthercastle.org

lowthercastle.org

231 ms

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508 ms

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216 ms

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styles.css

287 ms

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292 ms

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304 ms

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442 ms

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325 ms

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326 ms

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369 ms

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375 ms

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109 ms

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391 ms

flickity.css

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409 ms

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414 ms

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456 ms

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js_composer.min.css

476 ms

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478 ms

salient-dynamic-styles.css

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587 ms

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679 ms

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750 ms

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172 ms

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467 ms

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480 ms

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484 ms

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668 ms

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668 ms

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668 ms

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669 ms

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659 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

931 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

941 ms

priority.js

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942 ms

transit.min.js

transit.min.js

944 ms

waypoints.js

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943 ms

imagesLoaded.min.js

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942 ms

hoverintent.min.js

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944 ms

magnific.js

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1015 ms

anime.min.js

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1014 ms

api.js

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115 ms

flickity.js

flickity.js

1008 ms

superfish.js

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899 ms

init.js

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852 ms

touchswipe.min.js

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825 ms

core.min.js

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817 ms

pum-site-scripts.js

pum-site-scripts.js

796 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

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795 ms

mobile-detect.min.js

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751 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

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764 ms

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745 ms

pminstantpage.min.js

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855 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

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851 ms

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23 ms

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533 ms

logo-grey.png

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512 ms

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513 ms

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662 ms

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674 ms

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675 ms

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670 ms

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1023 ms

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1024 ms

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217 ms

Accessibility Review

lowthercastle.org 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

lowthercastle.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

lowthercastle.org 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 Lowthercastle.org 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 Lowthercastle.org 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

lowthercastle.org

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