Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

ascot.co.uk

Ascot Racecourse

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

ascot.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit ascot.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Ascot content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ascot.co.uk

Find information about our horse racecourse, upcoming racedays, events, Royal Ascot and venue availability at Ascot Racecourse. Book your tickets now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ascot.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 5.1 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

ascot.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value52.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,400 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value72.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ascot.co.uk

212 ms

ascot.co.uk

377 ms

www.ascot.co.uk

622 ms

system.base.css

25 ms

system.menus.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 227 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (145 requests) were addressed to the original Ascot.co.uk, 7% (17 requests) were made to Pixel.mathtag.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Track.adform.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (806 ms) relates to the external source Cs.gssprt.jp.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (32%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ascot.co.uk main page is 4.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 94.1 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. 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 83.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 199.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Ascot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 910.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 976.1 kB
  • After compression 326.0 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 910.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 254.7 kB

  • Original 320.9 kB
  • After minification 309.7 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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. Ascot.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 171 (77%)

Requests Now

222

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 222 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ascot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 75 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 42 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ascot.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

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

ascot.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ascot.co.uk SEO score

83

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 doesn't use 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 Ascot.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 Ascot.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 Ascot. 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: