Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

blog.visitwales.co.uk

UK breaks and family holiday destinations | Visit Wales

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

blog.visitwales.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit blog.visitwales.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Blog Visit Wales content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.visitwales.co.uk

Visit Wales official web site . Get great UK holiday ideas, family breaks, weekend getaways and walking Holidays. The outdoors on your doorstep.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.visitwales.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.visitwales.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.visitwales.com

267 ms

www.visitwales.com

685 ms

j.php

57 ms

google_tag.script.js

235 ms

css_WVhiwuWeY33qles0fxzzx-q9_Lm5Musw7WvsUG5TWpE.css

310 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.visitwales.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Visitwales.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.visitwales.co.uk main page is 4.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 343.7 kB

  • Original 448.5 kB
  • After minification 392.3 kB
  • After compression 104.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 56.1 kB, which is 13% 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 343.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Blog Visit Wales images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 78 B

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 295.0 kB
  • After compression 294.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 114 B

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. Blog.visitwales.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (7%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Visit Wales. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.visitwales.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blog.visitwales.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.visitwales.co.uk SEO score

89

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 Blog.visitwales.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 Blog.visitwales.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blog Visit Wales. 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: