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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

cottagesdirect.net

Holiday Cottages Direct - Lodges Cottages England Wales and Scotland

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

294 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

670 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottagesdirect.net page load time and found that the first response time was 294 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cottagesdirect.net performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cottagesdirect.net

294 ms

www.cottagesdirect.net

772 ms

jquery-ui.css

80 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

159 ms

thg-search-props.css

884 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Cottagesdirect.net, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Cottagesdirect.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottagesdirect.net 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 85.0 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 76.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 42.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Cottages Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 334.1 kB

  • Original 478.0 kB
  • After minification 454.3 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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 334.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

  • Original 247.3 kB
  • After minification 222.8 kB
  • After compression 78.6 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. Cottagesdirect.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (36%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

53

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottages Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cottagesdirect.net

cottagesdirect.net

294 ms

www.cottagesdirect.net

www.cottagesdirect.net

772 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

80 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

jquery-ui.theme.css

159 ms

thg-search-props.css

thg-search-props.css

884 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

156 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

885 ms

thg-search-props.js

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1885 ms

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style.css

91 ms

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24 ms

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1885 ms

prettyPhoto.css

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4676 ms

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5235 ms

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5236 ms

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5826 ms

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167 ms

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273 ms

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512 ms

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34 ms

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672 ms

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751 ms

gallery.js

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828 ms

colorbox.js

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908 ms

core.min.js

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1062 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

1142 ms

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accordion.min.js

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tabs.min.js

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effect.min.js

1375 ms

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1454 ms

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1532 ms

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1610 ms

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1688 ms

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1703 ms

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1710 ms

jquery-ui.theme.css

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1789 ms

thg-search-props.css

thg-search-props.css

1081 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1141 ms

thg-search-props.js

thg-search-props.js

160 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

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79 ms

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bg.png

309 ms

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190 ms

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232 ms

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185 ms

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147 ms

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81 ms

Accessibility Review

cottagesdirect.net accessibility score

69

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

cottagesdirect.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cottagesdirect.net SEO score

99

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

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 Cottagesdirect.net 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 Cottagesdirect.net 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

cottagesdirect.net

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Cottages Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: