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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

castles.sk

Slovak castles

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

624 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

144 ms

castles.sk screenshot

About Website

Visit castles.sk now to see the best up-to-date Castles content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about castles.sk

Discover the beauty of Slovak castles and chateaux. Read about their history, interesting facts, and plan your visit on castles.sk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castles.sk page load time and found that the first response time was 624 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castles.sk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castles.sk

624 ms

hrady.css

231 ms

count.asp

216 ms

sk.gif

239 ms

search-ok.gif

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Castles.sk, 15% (2 requests) were made to Hrady.sk and 8% (1 request) were made to Toplist.cz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (771 ms) relates to the external source Hrady.sk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

89.3 kB

After Optimization

69.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castles.sk main page is 89.3 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 74.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 36% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 66.1 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, Castles needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Castles.sk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castles. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

castles.sk

castles.sk

624 ms

hrady.css

hrady.css

231 ms

count.asp

count.asp

216 ms

sk.gif

sk.gif

239 ms

search-ok.gif

search-ok.gif

247 ms

nic.gif

nic.gif

246 ms

xslovensko.png

xslovensko.png

483 ms

3D_banner.gif

3D_banner.gif

481 ms

Beckov_banner.gif

Beckov_banner.gif

706 ms

KSIII_banner.gif

KSIII_banner.gif

687 ms

MK35_banner.gif

MK35_banner.gif

701 ms

biglogoen2005.jpg

biglogoen2005.jpg

683 ms

bg-menu.png

bg-menu.png

771 ms

Accessibility Review

castles.sk accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

castles.sk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castles.sk SEO score

85

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1250

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Castles.sk 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 Castles.sk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1250. 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

castles.sk

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