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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thegtc.co.uk

University & College Trips | Student Trips | Studylink

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegtc.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegtc.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.694

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegtc.co.uk

279 ms

www.studylinktours.co.uk

862 ms

jquery

274 ms

plugins

352 ms

onetrustslk

363 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thegtc.co.uk, 95% (35 requests) were made to Studylinktours.co.uk and 3% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (862 ms) relates to the external source Studylinktours.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thegtc.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 68.0 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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 9.2 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 56.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 919 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Thegtc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (37%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thegtc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegtc.co.uk

thegtc.co.uk

279 ms

www.studylinktours.co.uk

www.studylinktours.co.uk

862 ms

jquery

jquery

274 ms

plugins

plugins

352 ms

onetrustslk

onetrustslk

363 ms

modernizr

modernizr

363 ms

slk_css

slk_css

466 ms

googlefonts_css

googlefonts_css

385 ms

bootstrap-carousel_css

bootstrap-carousel_css

385 ms

onetrust_slk_css

onetrust_slk_css

427 ms

bootstrap

bootstrap

440 ms

slick

slick

438 ms

mainJS

mainJS

601 ms

picker

picker

599 ms

studylink-logo.svg

studylink-logo.svg

150 ms

StudyLink_Logo_Reg.png

StudyLink_Logo_Reg.png

152 ms

www.studylinktours.co.uk

www.studylinktours.co.uk

544 ms

purple-tick.png

purple-tick.png

90 ms

Montserrat-Light.woff

Montserrat-Light.woff

88 ms

Montserrat-Hairline.woff

Montserrat-Hairline.woff

117 ms

Montserrat-Regular.woff

Montserrat-Regular.woff

415 ms

Montserrat-Bold.woff

Montserrat-Bold.woff

419 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

419 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

93 ms

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-oned.jpg

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-oned.jpg

427 ms

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-onea.jpg

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-onea.jpg

462 ms

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-oneba.jpg

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-oneba.jpg

376 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

98 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

177 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

184 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

296 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

265 ms

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-onee.jpg

studylink-homepage-slideshow-desktop-onee.jpg

286 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

101 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

96 ms

GetImage.ashx

GetImage.ashx

95 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

99 ms

Accessibility Review

thegtc.co.uk accessibility score

85

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

thegtc.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

thegtc.co.uk SEO score

68

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thegtc.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 Thegtc.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

thegtc.co.uk

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