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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

skiptoncastle.co.uk

Skipton Castle, Superbly Preserved Medieval Castle, Yorkshire

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

skiptoncastle.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit skiptoncastle.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Skipton Castle content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about skiptoncastle.co.uk

Skipton Castle North Yorkshire is one of the best preserved famous castles in Britain open for educational school visits and group bookings with book shop and tea rooms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skiptoncastle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skiptoncastle.co.uk performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skiptoncastle.co.uk

280 ms

www.skiptoncastle.co.uk

1326 ms

cookieconsent.js

120 ms

cookieconsent-init.js

236 ms

cookieconsent-signals.js

337 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Skiptoncastle.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Skiptoncastle.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

262.4 kB

After Optimization

192.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skiptoncastle.co.uk main page is 262.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 177.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 16.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 177.6 kB
  • After minification 171.9 kB

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. Skipton Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Skiptoncastle.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skipton 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

skiptoncastle.co.uk

skiptoncastle.co.uk

280 ms

www.skiptoncastle.co.uk

www.skiptoncastle.co.uk

1326 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

120 ms

cookieconsent-init.js

cookieconsent-init.js

236 ms

cookieconsent-signals.js

cookieconsent-signals.js

337 ms

backgnd-lg.jpg

backgnd-lg.jpg

572 ms

smallwyvern.gif

smallwyvern.gif

393 ms

new-logo.png

new-logo.png

497 ms

flags.gif

flags.gif

412 ms

button-down.gif

button-down.gif

394 ms

button-up.gif

button-up.gif

426 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

487 ms

button-up-blue.gif

button-up-blue.gif

488 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

516 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

524 ms

instagram.gif

instagram.gif

584 ms

pintrest.gif

pintrest.gif

584 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

590 ms

gatehouse.jpg

gatehouse.jpg

631 ms

castle-leaflet-2024.jpg

castle-leaflet-2024.jpg

639 ms

150-button-up.gif

150-button-up.gif

662 ms

Skipton%20Castle%202022%20for%20web.jpg

Skipton%20Castle%202022%20for%20web.jpg

885 ms

small-button-up.gif

small-button-up.gif

685 ms

smail.gif

smail.gif

683 ms

castle.css

castle.css

733 ms

castle.js

castle.js

729 ms

phone.gif

phone.gif

752 ms

email.gif

email.gif

775 ms

cookieconsent.css

cookieconsent.css

110 ms

Accessibility Review

skiptoncastle.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.

Best Practices

skiptoncastle.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

skiptoncastle.co.uk SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skiptoncastle.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 Skiptoncastle.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

skiptoncastle.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Skipton 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: