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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

theholidaycottages.co.uk

The Holiday Cottages, Self Catering Cottages in the UK and Ireland

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

292 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

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About Website

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A self catering directory where you can book direct with owners. Holiday cottages available in England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland. Search & find a great choice of holiday cottages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theholidaycottages.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 292 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theholidaycottages.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theholidaycottages.co.uk

292 ms

hc-main.css

171 ms

css

68 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.css

164 ms

tipTip.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Theholidaycottages.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Theholidaycottages.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 538.9 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

640.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theholidaycottages.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 615.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 33.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 454.6 kB
  • After minification 419.2 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 Holiday Cottages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 415.9 kB

  • Original 615.5 kB
  • After minification 475.4 kB
  • After compression 199.5 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 415.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 66.5 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Theholidaycottages.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (55%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Holiday Cottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theholidaycottages.co.uk

theholidaycottages.co.uk

292 ms

hc-main.css

hc-main.css

171 ms

css

css

68 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.css

164 ms

tipTip.css

tipTip.css

162 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

jquery-1.7.1.js

174 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js

383 ms

jquery.tipTip.js

jquery.tipTip.js

511 ms

js

js

99 ms

markerclusterer.js

markerclusterer.js

504 ms

standard.js

standard.js

522 ms

element.js

element.js

31 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

169 ms

retina-1.1.0.min.js

retina-1.1.0.min.js

1415 ms

holiday-cottages.png

holiday-cottages.png

1027 ms

orange_bg.png

orange_bg.png

1026 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

1022 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

1989 ms

googleplus.png

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1392 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

1994 ms

fav-heart.png

fav-heart.png

1993 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

1068 ms

star.png

star.png

1072 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

58 ms

main.js

main.js

109 ms

blue-but-fade.png

blue-but-fade.png

2929 ms

fp-featured-bg.png

fp-featured-bg.png

3159 ms

luggage-tmp.png

luggage-tmp.png

3292 ms

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cosy-cottage.jpg

3331 ms

big-house.jpg

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3323 ms

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3407 ms

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36 ms

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13 ms

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62 ms

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14 ms

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56 ms

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100 ms

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23 ms

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28 ms

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10 ms

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84 ms

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Accessibility Review

theholidaycottages.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

theholidaycottages.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theholidaycottages.co.uk SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theholidaycottages.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Theholidaycottages.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

theholidaycottages.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Holiday Cottages. 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: