Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

holidays.lastminute.com

Cheap Holidays 2021 | Holiday Package Deals | lastminute.com

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

401 ms

holidays.lastminute.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to holidays.lastminute.com homepage info - get ready to check Holidays Lastminute best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about holidays.lastminute.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Holidays.lastminute.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 1.6 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

holidays.lastminute.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

holidays

119 ms

263 ms

wt_capi.js

16 ms

lmn.css

56 ms

lmn.digitalData.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Holidays.lastminute.com, 17% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to S.lmncdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (263 ms) relates to the external source Lastminute.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 749.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Holidays.lastminute.com main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 979.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 87.5 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 70.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 979.6 kB
  • After minification 957.5 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. Holidays Lastminute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 453.9 kB

  • Original 668.1 kB
  • After minification 658.0 kB
  • After compression 214.2 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 453.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 203.8 kB

  • Original 305.7 kB
  • After minification 305.6 kB
  • After compression 101.9 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. Holidays.lastminute.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Holidays Lastminute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

holidays.lastminute.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

holidays.lastminute.com 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

holidays.lastminute.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Holidays.lastminute.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 Holidays.lastminute.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

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