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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bike-express.co.uk

Bike Express - The Best Way Into Europe For You And Your Bike

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bike-express.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Bike Express best content right away, or after learning these important things about bike-express.co.uk

European Bike Express is the best way into Europe for you and your bike by Coach. Cycling Holidays to Spain too! We have 23 points in the UK and 24 locations in France or Spain. Simply turn the handle...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bike-express.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 3.3 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

bike-express.co.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bike-express.co.uk

324 ms

bike-express.co.uk

896 ms

css

254 ms

font-awesome.min.css

349 ms

jquery-3.6.1.min.js

538 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Bike-express.co.uk, 18% (4 requests) were made to Images.bike-express.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Images.bike-express.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 151.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

393.9 kB

After Optimization

242.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bike-express.co.uk main page is 393.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 177.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 18.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 175.5 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. Bike Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 107.2 kB

  • Original 160.1 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 107.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 31.4 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Bike-express.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bike Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bike-express.co.uk

bike-express.co.uk

324 ms

bike-express.co.uk

bike-express.co.uk

896 ms

css

css

254 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

349 ms

jquery-3.6.1.min.js

jquery-3.6.1.min.js

538 ms

jquery.base64.js

jquery.base64.js

380 ms

jquery.plugin.min.js

jquery.plugin.min.js

381 ms

jquery.datepick.min.js

jquery.datepick.min.js

463 ms

rotator

rotator

384 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

442 ms

freetypesearch

freetypesearch

468 ms

availabilitysearch

availabilitysearch

393 ms

jquery.datepick-en-GB.js

jquery.datepick-en-GB.js

393 ms

globalfunctions

globalfunctions

448 ms

newsummer2024schedule.pdf

newsummer2024schedule.pdf

1338 ms

GraduatedBackground.gif

GraduatedBackground.gif

96 ms

Header.jpg

Header.jpg

264 ms

SeparatorBar.gif

SeparatorBar.gif

92 ms

Calendar.gif

Calendar.gif

89 ms

coachandtrailkerpicture.jpeg

coachandtrailkerpicture.jpeg

581 ms

facebook-logo_thumbnail.jpeg

facebook-logo_thumbnail.jpeg

427 ms

twitter.jpeg

twitter.jpeg

426 ms

Accessibility Review

bike-express.co.uk accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

bike-express.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

SEO Factors

bike-express.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Bike-express.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 Bike-express.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

bike-express.co.uk

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