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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theblackpooltower.co.uk

Blackpool's Best Tourist Attraction | The Blackpool Tower

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

789 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

856 ms

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About Website

Welcome to theblackpooltower.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Blackpool Tower best content right away, or after learning these important things about theblackpooltower.co.uk

Welcome to The Blackpool Tower, one of Blackpool's most iconic attractions. Book online for guaranteed admission and up to 20% off tickets.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theblackpooltower.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 789 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theblackpooltower.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value48.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.249

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theblackpooltower.com

789 ms

wuh4rwg.css

154 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

137 ms

otSDKStub.js

153 ms

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

390 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Theblackpooltower.co.uk, 15% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 13% (6 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Theblackpooltower.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 753.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theblackpooltower.co.uk main page is 6.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 171.3 kB

  • Original 204.5 kB
  • After minification 165.1 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 39.4 kB, which is 19% 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 171.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 544.6 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 5.7 MB

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. The Blackpool Tower images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 111.2 kB
  • After minification 111.2 kB
  • After compression 95.3 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 15.9 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 85.1 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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. Theblackpooltower.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (51%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Blackpool Tower. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theblackpooltower.com

www.theblackpooltower.com

789 ms

wuh4rwg.css

wuh4rwg.css

154 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

137 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

153 ms

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

lazysizes.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

390 ms

style.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.css

style.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.css

1267 ms

core@2

core@2

43 ms

tippy.js@6

tippy.js@6

65 ms

index.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

index.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

412 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

581 ms

jquery.validate.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

jquery.validate.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

499 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

536 ms

jquery.matchHeight.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

jquery.matchHeight.min.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

802 ms

core.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

core.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

1219 ms

accesso.js

accesso.js

535 ms

8 ms

8 ms

merlin.owlCarousel.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

merlin.owlCarousel.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

875 ms

merlin.uspBandBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

merlin.uspBandBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

1104 ms

merlin.asymmetricalList.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

merlin.asymmetricalList.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

953 ms

merlin.eventsShowsTeaserBandBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

merlin.eventsShowsTeaserBandBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

1160 ms

merlin.mosaicWithHovertextBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

merlin.mosaicWithHovertextBlock.-v-2.0.0-hotfix.5045-v.js

1287 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1438 ms

core@2.11.8

core@2.11.8

33 ms

tippy.js@6.3.7

tippy.js@6.3.7

51 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

14 ms

tippy-bundle.umd.min.js

tippy-bundle.umd.min.js

23 ms

p.css

p.css

31 ms

7769d3d8-66b1-4dd7-b991-1b28bd450936.json

7769d3d8-66b1-4dd7-b991-1b28bd450936.json

32 ms

location

location

34 ms

logo.png

logo.png

452 ms

merlin_primary_logo.png

merlin_primary_logo.png

982 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

403 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

358 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

406 ms

health.png

health.png

525 ms

untitled-design-3.png

untitled-design-3.png

2037 ms

tower-on-blue.jpg

tower-on-blue.jpg

790 ms

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37 ms

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59 ms

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44 ms

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45 ms

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44 ms

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58 ms

blackpool-tower-attraction-ballroom.jpg

blackpool-tower-attraction-ballroom.jpg

934 ms

shim.html

shim.html

358 ms

website-homepage-ticket-feature-box-1400x1000-1.png

website-homepage-ticket-feature-box-1400x1000-1.png

1352 ms

ballroom-homepage-website-banner-1920-x-1080.jpg

ballroom-homepage-website-banner-1920-x-1080.jpg

1076 ms

Accessibility Review

theblackpooltower.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

theblackpooltower.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theblackpooltower.co.uk SEO score

93

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 Theblackpooltower.co.uk 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 Theblackpooltower.co.uk 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

theblackpooltower.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Blackpool Tower. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: