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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

helpfulholidays.com

South West Holiday Cottages, Devon Cottages | Helpful Holidays

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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About Website

Visit helpfulholidays.com now to see the best up-to-date Helpful Holidays content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about helpfulholidays.com

Book your perfect South West holiday cottage with Helpful Holidays. Browse over 700 self-catering cottages in the South West including over 400 Devon cottages!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helpfulholidays.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helpfulholidays.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

helpfulholidays.com

245 ms

www.helpfulholidays.com

1051 ms

hh1.css

232 ms

progress_bar.js

164 ms

js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Helpfulholidays.com, 19% (17 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Helpfulholidays.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 669.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

547.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helpfulholidays.com main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 827.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 10.0 kB, which is 12% 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 68.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 256.1 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. Helpful Holidays images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 553.9 kB

  • Original 827.6 kB
  • After minification 805.8 kB
  • After compression 273.7 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 553.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Helpfulholidays.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (57%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helpful Holidays. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

helpfulholidays.com

helpfulholidays.com

245 ms

www.helpfulholidays.com

www.helpfulholidays.com

1051 ms

hh1.css

hh1.css

232 ms

progress_bar.js

progress_bar.js

164 ms

js

js

60 ms

homepage_gmap.js

homepage_gmap.js

250 ms

homepage_gmap_markers.js

homepage_gmap_markers.js

541 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

20 ms

overlib.js

overlib.js

500 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

156 ms

imp_multi_3.08.22.min.js

imp_multi_3.08.22.min.js

269 ms

58 ms

gplus-16.png

gplus-16.png

54 ms

holiday-cottages.gif

holiday-cottages.gif

90 ms

help.gif

help.gif

112 ms

mp_bt_go.gif

mp_bt_go.gif

111 ms

curvetopleft.gif

curvetopleft.gif

102 ms

1pix_clear.gif

1pix_clear.gif

102 ms

A14_OUT_DSC07367_01.jpg

A14_OUT_DSC07367_01.jpg

115 ms

P106_OUTSIDE_DSC00024_01.jpg

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161 ms

B24_OUT_P1000389_01.jpg

B24_OUT_P1000389_01.jpg

182 ms

P321_OUT3.jpg

P321_OUT3.jpg

176 ms

feefo-2015_gold.png

feefo-2015_gold.png

342 ms

rss_feed_icon.png

rss_feed_icon.png

184 ms

Sunday-Times-Editors-Award.jpg

Sunday-Times-Editors-Award.jpg

204 ms

Buy-With-Confidence.jpg

Buy-With-Confidence.jpg

244 ms

BTA-2015-Bronze.png

BTA-2015-Bronze.png

262 ms

Feefo-gold-trusted-merchant-2015.jpg

Feefo-gold-trusted-merchant-2015.jpg

265 ms

curvetopright.gif

curvetopright.gif

260 ms

Norton-Secured-Powered-By-Verisign.jpg

Norton-Secured-Powered-By-Verisign.jpg

288 ms

Facebook.jpg

Facebook.jpg

321 ms

Twitter.jpg

Twitter.jpg

413 ms

Blogger.jpg

Blogger.jpg

337 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

210 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

menu_button_default.gif

menu_button_default.gif

325 ms

hh_visitor_logging.asp

hh_visitor_logging.asp

321 ms

bl3.gif

bl3.gif

352 ms

br3.gif

br3.gif

371 ms

tl3.gif

tl3.gif

371 ms

tr3.gif

tr3.gif

373 ms

b3.gif

b3.gif

395 ms

57 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

19 ms

like.php

like.php

84 ms

bat.js

bat.js

60 ms

ResponseService.ashx

ResponseService.ashx

238 ms

smc.js

smc.js

189 ms

smc.js

smc.js

193 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

54 ms

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

vpc6VNjRPXV.js

287 ms

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324 ms

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ad_52_new%20website%20launch%20link%20final%20v2.jpg

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127 ms

common.js

common.js

31 ms

map.js

map.js

30 ms

util.js

util.js

76 ms

marker.js

marker.js

24 ms

55 ms

onion.js

onion.js

25 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

48 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

80 ms

stats.js

stats.js

35 ms

controls.js

controls.js

31 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

21 ms

css

css

67 ms

google4.png

google4.png

39 ms

blue_marker6.png

blue_marker6.png

85 ms

mapcnt6.png

mapcnt6.png

47 ms

sv5.png

sv5.png

49 ms

tmapctrl.png

tmapctrl.png

23 ms

cb_scout5.png

cb_scout5.png

26 ms

tmapctrl4.png

tmapctrl4.png

24 ms

imgs8.png

imgs8.png

24 ms

vt

vt

47 ms

vt

vt

42 ms

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46 ms

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68 ms

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69 ms

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70 ms

vt

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41 ms

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42 ms

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44 ms

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45 ms

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42 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

264 ms

Accessibility Review

helpfulholidays.com accessibility score

81

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

helpfulholidays.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

helpfulholidays.com SEO score

86

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Helpfulholidays.com 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 Helpfulholidays.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

helpfulholidays.com

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