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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

betterfares.co.uk

Minibus Hire UK | Airport Taxi Tranfers | Coach Hire & Bus Rentals UK

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betterfares.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betterfares.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

betterfares.co.uk

240 ms

betterfares.co.uk

335 ms

www.betterfares.co.uk

612 ms

css

58 ms

bootstrap.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Betterfares.co.uk, 24% (11 requests) were made to Transportcrm.co.uk and 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (791 ms) relates to the external source Minibusescardiff.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Betterfares.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 10.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 42.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Betterfares images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 375.8 kB
  • After minification 375.8 kB
  • After compression 355.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Betterfares.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Betterfares. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

betterfares.co.uk

betterfares.co.uk

240 ms

betterfares.co.uk

betterfares.co.uk

335 ms

www.betterfares.co.uk

www.betterfares.co.uk

612 ms

css

css

58 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

84 ms

style.css

style.css

167 ms

menu.css

menu.css

235 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

41 ms

script.js

script.js

252 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

41 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

255 ms

js

js

90 ms

backtotop.js

backtotop.js

341 ms

10

10

457 ms

whatsapp.png

whatsapp.png

791 ms

logo.png

logo.png

157 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

545 ms

profile.jpg

profile.jpg

311 ms

pic1.jpg

pic1.jpg

182 ms

pic2.jpg

pic2.jpg

181 ms

pic3.jpg

pic3.jpg

235 ms

pic4.jpg

pic4.jpg

313 ms

pic5.jpg

pic5.jpg

338 ms

pic6.jpg

pic6.jpg

262 ms

cd-top-arrow.svg

cd-top-arrow.svg

315 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxPKTU1Kg.ttf

18 ms

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33 ms

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46 ms

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47 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9AMP6lQ.ttf

46 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

22 ms

10

10

423 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

54 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

16 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

161 ms

intlTelInput.css

intlTelInput.css

242 ms

intlTelInput.js

intlTelInput.js

324 ms

js

js

73 ms

car-pickup.svg

car-pickup.svg

83 ms

car-destination.svg

car-destination.svg

82 ms

user.svg

user.svg

79 ms

mail.svg

mail.svg

160 ms

suitcase.svg

suitcase.svg

158 ms

flags.png

flags.png

210 ms

utils.js

utils.js

97 ms

Accessibility Review

betterfares.co.uk accessibility score

59

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

betterfares.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

betterfares.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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

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 Betterfares.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 Betterfares.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

betterfares.co.uk

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