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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thebeachguide.co.uk

Great British Beaches | UK Beach Guide

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

314 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebeachguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 314 ms and then it took 2.9 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

thebeachguide.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.29

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebeachguide.co.uk

314 ms

www.thebeachguide.co.uk

1081 ms

foundation.min.css

10 ms

app.css

104 ms

jquery.min.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Thebeachguide.co.uk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thebeachguide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebeachguide.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 892.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 139.7 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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 108.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 892.0 kB
  • After minification 863.3 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. The Beach Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 416.5 kB

  • Original 691.4 kB
  • After minification 691.2 kB
  • After compression 274.9 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 416.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.4 kB

  • Original 97.6 kB
  • After minification 93.7 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Thebeachguide.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (31%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Beach Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebeachguide.co.uk

thebeachguide.co.uk

314 ms

www.thebeachguide.co.uk

www.thebeachguide.co.uk

1081 ms

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10 ms

app.css

app.css

104 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

17 ms

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204 ms

foundation.min.js

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16 ms

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15 ms

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addthis_widget.js

14 ms

cookieconsent.latest.min.js

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15 ms

ga.js

ga.js

56 ms

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210 ms

sand.jpg

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210 ms

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371 ms

logo.png

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223 ms

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225 ms

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752 ms

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810 ms

norfolk-beach-huts.jpg

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812 ms

dorset-beaches.jpg

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839 ms

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859 ms

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47 ms

zrt_lookup.html

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148 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

147 ms

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117 ms

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47 ms

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19 ms

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804 ms

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808 ms

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46 ms

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ads

252 ms

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osd.js

6 ms

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14 ms

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61 ms

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33 ms

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34 ms

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14 ms

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40 ms

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14 ms

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5 ms

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7 ms

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5 ms

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14 ms

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37 ms

Accessibility Review

thebeachguide.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

thebeachguide.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thebeachguide.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Thebeachguide.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 Thebeachguide.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

thebeachguide.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Beach Guide. 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: