Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    38% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

travel.telegraph.co.uk

Travel: Holidays, news, inspiration & expert advice - The Telegraph

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travel.telegraph.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travel.telegraph.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,300 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

251 ms

polyfill.min.js

1693 ms

tmg-cmp.min.js

56 ms

particle.js

246 ms

satelliteLib-177113f60f763788009998023cd15615fe2168a2.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Travel.telegraph.co.uk, 19% (14 requests) were made to Cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk and 17% (12 requests) were made to Cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

777.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Travel.telegraph.co.uk 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 401.4 kB

  • Original 443.0 kB
  • After minification 320.7 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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 122.2 kB, which is 28% 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 401.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 256.1 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. Travel Telegraph images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 773.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 378.5 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 773.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 101.5 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. Travel.telegraph.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (38%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travel Telegraph. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

travel.telegraph.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

travel.telegraph.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

travel.telegraph.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Travel.telegraph.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 Travel.telegraph.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

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