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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sloweurope.com

Slow Europe Travel Forums | Slow Europe Travel Forums

Page Load Speed

861 ms in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

652 ms

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sloweurope.com page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 791 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

sloweurope.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sloweurope.com

70 ms

sloweurope.com

95 ms

www.sloweurope.com

312 ms

boilerplate.css

42 ms

layout.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Sloweurope.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) belongs to the original domain Sloweurope.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 452.6 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sloweurope.com main page is 1.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 745.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 11.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 745.0 kB
  • After minification 728.7 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. Slow Europe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 304.8 kB

  • Original 615.5 kB
  • After minification 614.7 kB
  • After compression 310.7 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 304.8 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 120.3 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 83.4 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. Sloweurope.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

sloweurope.com

sloweurope.com

70 ms

sloweurope.com

sloweurope.com

95 ms

www.sloweurope.com

www.sloweurope.com

312 ms

boilerplate.css

boilerplate.css

42 ms

layout.css

layout.css

53 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

42 ms

juicebox.js

juicebox.js

118 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

gradient.gif

gradient.gif

23 ms

header-500-100.gif

header-500-100.gif

22 ms

header-300-75.gif

header-300-75.gif

22 ms

sloweurope-logo-slice-50-50.gif

sloweurope-logo-slice-50-50.gif

123 ms

navicon-travelforums.gif

navicon-travelforums.gif

42 ms

navicon-daytrips.gif

navicon-daytrips.gif

43 ms

navicon-vrentals.gif

navicon-vrentals.gif

43 ms

navicon-basics.gif

navicon-basics.gif

46 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

theme.css

theme.css

16 ms

Accessibility Review

sloweurope.com accessibility score

96

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sloweurope.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

SEO Factors

sloweurope.com SEO score

88

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

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 Sloweurope.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 Sloweurope.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

sloweurope.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Slow Europe. 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: