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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

essentialtravelguide.com

Essential Travel Guide: Expert Tips for Planning Your Perfect Trip -

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

581 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Essential Travel Guide content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about essentialtravelguide.com

Travel & destination guides with UK tourist information, advice, tips & articles. Book UK Holidays & Late Deals at Essential Travel Guide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essentialtravelguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 581 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

essentialtravelguide.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,650 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialtravelguide.com

581 ms

style.css

86 ms

jquery-1.5.min.js

239 ms

application.js

163 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Essentialtravelguide.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Api.skyscanner.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (581 ms) belongs to the original domain Essentialtravelguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

448.1 kB

After Optimization

330.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Essentialtravelguide.com main page is 448.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 274.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 kB, which is 14% 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 29.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 274.0 kB
  • After minification 265.8 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. Essential Travel Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 63.2 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 115.3 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 63.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Essentialtravelguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (23%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essential Travel Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialtravelguide.com

www.essentialtravelguide.com

581 ms

style.css

style.css

86 ms

jquery-1.5.min.js

jquery-1.5.min.js

239 ms

application.js

application.js

163 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js

176 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

258 ms

widget.css

widget.css

281 ms

recaptcha.css

recaptcha.css

246 ms

api.ashx

api.ashx

8 ms

api.ashx

api.ashx

226 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

85 ms

Eurostar468x60.gif

Eurostar468x60.gif

155 ms

image-2262795-10644824

image-2262795-10644824

104 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

136 ms

top_logo_img.gif

top_logo_img.gif

85 ms

Caswell-Bay-Gower-Wales-150x150.jpg

Caswell-Bay-Gower-Wales-150x150.jpg

135 ms

Scottish-Highlands-150x150.jpg

Scottish-Highlands-150x150.jpg

86 ms

View-of-London-150x150.jpg

View-of-London-150x150.jpg

157 ms

Caswell-Bay-Gower-Wales.jpg

Caswell-Bay-Gower-Wales.jpg

326 ms

Southwold-Beach-Suffolk-e1315579431478-300x174.jpg

Southwold-Beach-Suffolk-e1315579431478-300x174.jpg

162 ms

Tower-Bridge-e1315831706429.jpg

Tower-Bridge-e1315831706429.jpg

175 ms

Tourist-Information.jpg

Tourist-Information.jpg

356 ms

FAQs.jpg

FAQs.jpg

255 ms

UK-Customs-300x199.jpg

UK-Customs-300x199.jpg

298 ms

London-Pass.gif

London-Pass.gif

245 ms

UK-Map-with-Major-Cities-249x300.gif

UK-Map-with-Major-Cities-249x300.gif

258 ms

London-Eye-e1315837666677-300x186.jpg

London-Eye-e1315837666677-300x186.jpg

329 ms

Watergate-Bay-Co-300x187.jpg

Watergate-Bay-Co-300x187.jpg

500 ms

Heather-Moorland-North-York-Moors-e1390406365240-300x171.jpg

Heather-Moorland-North-York-Moors-e1390406365240-300x171.jpg

338 ms

UK-Countries-Map-e1412172549564-198x300.jpg

UK-Countries-Map-e1412172549564-198x300.jpg

441 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

menu_background.png

menu_background.png

393 ms

read-more-button.jpg

read-more-button.jpg

380 ms

twitter-icon.jpg

twitter-icon.jpg

394 ms

facbook-icon.jpg

facbook-icon.jpg

435 ms

digg-icon.jpg

digg-icon.jpg

465 ms

email-icon.jpg

email-icon.jpg

460 ms

domain_profile.cfm

domain_profile.cfm

124 ms

js

js

63 ms

10644824-1627666104369

10644824-1627666104369

116 ms

Accessibility Review

essentialtravelguide.com accessibility score

82

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

essentialtravelguide.com 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

essentialtravelguide.com 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Essentialtravelguide.com 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 Essentialtravelguide.com 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

essentialtravelguide.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Essential Travel Guide. 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: