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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

chooseacottage.co.uk

Holiday Cottages to Rent - UK Self-Catering Holidays | cottages.com

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

167 ms

chooseacottage.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chooseacottage.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chooseacottage.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chooseacottage.co.uk

259 ms

www.chooseacottage.co.uk

268 ms

thg_global.css

8 ms

thg_layout.css

15 ms

thg_brand.css

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Chooseacottage.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Chooseacottage.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 337.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

881.8 kB

After Optimization

544.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Chooseacottage.co.uk main page is 881.8 kB. 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 492.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 82.5 kB

  • Original 104.6 kB
  • After minification 97.2 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 82.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 492.3 kB
  • After minification 423.4 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. Obviously, Chooseacottage needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 185.7 kB

  • Original 285.0 kB
  • After minification 257.7 kB
  • After compression 99.3 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 185.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (32%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chooseacottage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chooseacottage.co.uk

chooseacottage.co.uk

259 ms

www.chooseacottage.co.uk

www.chooseacottage.co.uk

268 ms

thg_global.css

thg_global.css

8 ms

thg_layout.css

thg_layout.css

15 ms

thg_brand.css

thg_brand.css

10 ms

custom.css

custom.css

10 ms

jq.js

jq.js

21 ms

WebForms.js

WebForms.js

58 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

19 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

19 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

36 ms

thg_shop_tools_min.js

thg_shop_tools_min.js

225 ms

js

js

29 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

128 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

7 ms

association.gif

association.gif

5 ms

phone.png

phone.png

287 ms

button_continue.png

button_continue.png

6 ms

button_go.png

button_go.png

289 ms

searchloading.png

searchloading.png

10 ms

Merch1-1-1.jpg

Merch1-1-1.jpg

13 ms

Merch1-1-2.jpg

Merch1-1-2.jpg

20 ms

Merch1-1-3.jpg

Merch1-1-3.jpg

14 ms

Merch1-1-4.jpg

Merch1-1-4.jpg

18 ms

Merch1-1-5.gif

Merch1-1-5.gif

18 ms

Merch1-1-6.jpg

Merch1-1-6.jpg

25 ms

credit-cards.png

credit-cards.png

23 ms

ABTA.jpg

ABTA.jpg

123 ms

low-deposit

low-deposit

165 ms

quicksearch-bg.jpg

quicksearch-bg.jpg

240 ms

ico-downarrow.png

ico-downarrow.png

164 ms

Image3-2.jpg

Image3-2.jpg

557 ms

F13118-Provence.jpg

F13118-Provence.jpg

818 ms

Image4-1.jpg

Image4-1.jpg

562 ms

beautiful-interiors.jpg

beautiful-interiors.jpg

669 ms

Image2-1.jpg

Image2-1.jpg

1462 ms

Image5-1.jpg

Image5-1.jpg

563 ms

LE4_Cumbria.jpg

LE4_Cumbria.jpg

893 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

18 ms

43 ms

105 ms

dc.js

dc.js

73 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

nr-852.min.js

nr-852.min.js

46 ms

Accessibility Review

chooseacottage.co.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

chooseacottage.co.uk best practices score

69

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

chooseacottage.co.uk SEO score

67

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 doesn't use 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 Chooseacottage.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 Chooseacottage.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

chooseacottage.co.uk

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