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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cottages.co.uk

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

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

311 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

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

Browse over 21,000 holiday holiday cottages in the UK. Find hot tub cottages, dog friendly holidays, short breaks and more amazing self-catering accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottages.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 311 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cottages.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cottages.co.uk

311 ms

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503 ms

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97 ms

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96 ms

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96 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cottages.co.uk, 54% (19 requests) were made to Static.age.awaze.com and 17% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (503 ms) relates to the external source Cottages.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 455.6 kB (75%)

Content Size

611.0 kB

After Optimization

155.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottages.co.uk main page is 611.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 328.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 256.1 kB

  • Original 328.1 kB
  • After minification 328.0 kB
  • After compression 72.0 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 256.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 199.3 kB

  • Original 281.0 kB
  • After minification 281.0 kB
  • After compression 81.6 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 199.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 224 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Cottages.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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311 ms

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503 ms

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Accessibility Review

cottages.co.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

cottages.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cottages.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cottages.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 Cottages.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

cottages.co.uk

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