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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thisisdurham.com

The Official Tourism Website for Durham | An Amazing County

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

527 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thisisdurham.com homepage info - get ready to check Thisis Durham best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about thisisdurham.com

The official tourism site for Durham. Book hotels & accommodation, find places to eat, and things to do in durham. Discover amazing what's on events such as Kynren and Lumiere and stroll through h...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisdurham.com page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thisisdurham.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,450 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.3

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thisisdurham.com

250 ms

www.thisisdurham.com

747 ms

style2_v63842226143.css

157 ms

style_v63842226143.css

402 ms

js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Thisisdurham.com, 6% (9 requests) were made to Snapwidget.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thisisdurham.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 304.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thisisdurham.com main page is 4.7 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 224.9 kB
  • After minification 223.0 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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. 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 187.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Thisis Durham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 282.9 kB
  • After minification 281.3 kB
  • After compression 247.1 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 35.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 12.5 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Thisisdurham.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (41%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thisis Durham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thisisdurham.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thisisdurham.com best practices score

42

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thisisdurham.com SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thisisdurham.com

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