Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

velvetcottage.co.uk

Llangollen holiday cottage, private garden and parking bay

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

velvetcottage.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Velvet Cottage content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about velvetcottage.co.uk

Velvet Cottage is a dog friendly self catering holiday let with its own private parking bay, in a stunning setting close to Llangollen, North Wales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Velvetcottage.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 2.7 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

velvetcottage.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.225

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

velvetcottage.co.uk

370 ms

velvetcottage.co.uk

517 ms

e1bd799d-347a-41b6-9d47-e0e8c2956003.css

627 ms

translations.js

476 ms

published-v10-site-libs.js

729 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Velvetcottage.co.uk, 60% (21 requests) were made to Files.uk2sitebuilder.com and 20% (7 requests) were made to 55b558c7-resources.uk2sitebuilder.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (923 ms) relates to the external source Files.uk2sitebuilder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 279.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Velvetcottage.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 765.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 278.7 kB

  • Original 321.0 kB
  • After minification 296.2 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 278.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 765.4 kB
  • After minification 765.4 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. Velvet Cottage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 166 B

  • Original 509.7 kB
  • After minification 509.7 kB
  • After compression 509.6 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 248 B

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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. Velvetcottage.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (18%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Velvet Cottage. 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

velvetcottage.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

velvetcottage.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

velvetcottage.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Velvetcottage.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 Velvetcottage.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 data is detected on the main page of Velvet Cottage. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: