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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thecastleton.co.uk

Bed & Breakfast in Swanage

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

562 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thecastleton.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Thecastleton best content right away, or after learning these important things about thecastleton.co.uk

Family run B+B close to the beach in Swanage, recently refurbished, all rooms en-suite.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecastleton.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 562 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecastleton.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecastleton.co.uk

562 ms

reset.css

2821 ms

layout.css

2835 ms

typography.css

2827 ms

menus.css

2832 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Thecastleton.co.uk, 9% (7 requests) were made to Tripadvisor.co.uk and 6% (5 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecastleton.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 659.1 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

811.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecastleton.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 597.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 4.3 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 28.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 597.4 kB
  • After minification 569.7 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. Thecastleton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 335.0 kB

  • Original 513.3 kB
  • After minification 511.0 kB
  • After compression 178.3 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 335.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 267.5 kB

  • Original 324.8 kB
  • After minification 310.2 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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. Thecastleton.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (69%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecastleton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecastleton.co.uk

thecastleton.co.uk

562 ms

reset.css

reset.css

2821 ms

layout.css

layout.css

2835 ms

typography.css

typography.css

2827 ms

menus.css

menus.css

2832 ms

modules.css

modules.css

2828 ms

system.css

system.css

2834 ms

extensions.css

extensions.css

2950 ms

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style.css

2957 ms

orange.css

orange.css

2945 ms

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custom.css

2955 ms

jquery.js

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3208 ms

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3031 ms

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3045 ms

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3113 ms

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3121 ms

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3210 ms

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70 ms

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49 ms

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51 ms

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42 ms

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396 ms

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461 ms

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102 ms

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210 ms

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92 ms

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94 ms

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99 ms

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100 ms

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353 ms

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178 ms

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208 ms

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210 ms

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208 ms

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273 ms

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271 ms

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277 ms

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1485 ms

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1480 ms

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1484 ms

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1481 ms

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1482 ms

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30 ms

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10 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

footer_anchor.png

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1312 ms

searchbox_bg.png

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1312 ms

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1313 ms

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1314 ms

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5 ms

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14 ms

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37 ms

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30 ms

Accessibility Review

thecastleton.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

thecastleton.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecastleton.co.uk SEO score

89

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 Thecastleton.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 Thecastleton.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

thecastleton.co.uk

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