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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

mycottageholiday.co.uk

Holiday Cottage Reviews for Cottages in the UK and Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

825 ms

mycottageholiday.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing My Cottage Holiday content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mycottageholiday.co.uk

Impartial holiday cottage reviews for a huge range of self catered holiday lets from cottages to manor houses covering the UK and Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mycottageholiday.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mycottageholiday.co.uk performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mycottageholiday.co.uk

163 ms

www.mycottageholiday.co.uk

798 ms

select2.min.css

42 ms

style.min.css

316 ms

overrides.min.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Mycottageholiday.co.uk, 41% (17 requests) were made to Media.mycottageholiday.co.uk and 15% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (798 ms) belongs to the original domain Mycottageholiday.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 772.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

9.6 MB

After Optimization

8.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mycottageholiday.co.uk main page is 9.6 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. 80% 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 9.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 7.5 kB, which is 14% 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 43.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 598.9 kB

  • Original 9.2 MB
  • After minification 8.6 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. My Cottage Holiday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 298.3 kB
  • After minification 298.3 kB
  • After compression 239.6 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 58.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 95.2 kB
  • After minification 95.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Mycottageholiday.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Cottage Holiday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mycottageholiday.co.uk

mycottageholiday.co.uk

163 ms

www.mycottageholiday.co.uk

www.mycottageholiday.co.uk

798 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

42 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

316 ms

overrides.min.css

overrides.min.css

244 ms

MyCotHol_logoMd.gif

MyCotHol_logoMd.gif

40 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

23 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

243 ms

js

js

73 ms

api.js

api.js

53 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

88 ms

cse.js

cse.js

130 ms

staron.png

staron.png

96 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

93 ms

find-a-cottage.jpg

find-a-cottage.jpg

92 ms

featured-cottages.jpg

featured-cottages.jpg

201 ms

staroff.png

staroff.png

104 ms

redlodge.png

redlodge.png

130 ms

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124 ms

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123 ms

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sc_1625658888_1080349_1.jpg

122 ms

the_power_house_skinninggrove.jpg

the_power_house_skinninggrove.jpg

121 ms

1redwood_blue_art.jpg

1redwood_blue_art.jpg

198 ms

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sc_13433810945326_15823_06.jpg

134 ms

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sc_15523200555397_22743_002.jpg

134 ms

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128 ms

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135 ms

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142 ms

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sc_15047063160192_953751_003.jpg

187 ms

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sc_15166218229015_957101_0101.jpg

186 ms

sc_1521118744_975918_1.jpg

sc_1521118744_975918_1.jpg

188 ms

ga.js

ga.js

43 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

156 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

21 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

64 ms

default.css

default.css

65 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

32 ms

branding.png

branding.png

32 ms

clear.png

clear.png

25 ms

nav_logo114.png

nav_logo114.png

30 ms

Accessibility Review

mycottageholiday.co.uk accessibility score

96

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.

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

mycottageholiday.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mycottageholiday.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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Mycottageholiday.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 Mycottageholiday.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

mycottageholiday.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My Cottage Holiday. 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: