Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

hitchnhike.co.uk

Hitch n Hike - Rock Climbing - Outdoor - Caving - Work & Rescue - Equipment

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

325 ms

Resources Loaded

715 ms

Page Rendered

180 ms

hitchnhike.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hitch N Hike content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hitchnhike.co.uk

Climbing, Caving and Outdoor equipment from Hitch n Hike - the Peak District's longest established climbing, caving and outdoor Shop. Our shop is located in the Hope Valley Garden Centre near Bamford....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hitchnhike.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 325 ms and then it took 895 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hitchnhike.co.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.243

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hitchnhike.co.uk

325 ms

news_and_info_2.jpg

160 ms

rock_climbing_2.jpg

231 ms

caving_2.jpg

234 ms

outdoor_2.jpg

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hitchnhike.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (394 ms) belongs to the original domain Hitchnhike.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

368.7 kB

After Optimization

350.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Hitchnhike.co.uk main page is 368.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 360.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 1.2 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 6.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 360.0 kB
  • After minification 348.6 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. Hitch N Hike images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hitch N Hike. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

hitchnhike.co.uk accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hitchnhike.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

hitchnhike.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hitchnhike.co.uk 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 Hitchnhike.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hitch N Hike. 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: