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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

Best Canal Boat Holidays from our UK Waterways Guide

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

168 ms

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

342 ms

gtm.js

89 ms

main-min.css

100 ms

index-rwd-min.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk, 12% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (342 ms) belongs to the original domain Ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

159.1 kB

After Optimization

126.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk main page is 159.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 109.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 41.9 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 32.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 109.1 kB
  • After minification 109.1 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. UK Waterways Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (35%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK Waterways Guide. 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

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

168 ms

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

342 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

89 ms

main-min.css

main-min.css

100 ms

index-rwd-min.css

index-rwd-min.css

170 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

37 ms

js

js

71 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

40 ms

cookieinfo.min.js

cookieinfo.min.js

61 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

60 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

7 ms

45 ms

175945179

175945179

338 ms

header-large.jpg

header-large.jpg

88 ms

heron-large.jpg

heron-large.jpg

179 ms

SideBar2.jpg

SideBar2.jpg

246 ms

boat-hire.jpg

boat-hire.jpg

244 ms

boat-sales.jpg

boat-sales.jpg

244 ms

public-house.jpg

public-house.jpg

246 ms

restaurant.jpg

restaurant.jpg

246 ms

UK-map-small-02.jpg

UK-map-small-02.jpg

340 ms

play-button-up.png

play-button-up.png

324 ms

Simple%20Button%20Up.jpg

Simple%20Button%20Up.jpg

323 ms

iPhone-H130.jpg

iPhone-H130.jpg

327 ms

curved_top_bg.png

curved_top_bg.png

328 ms

kingfisher-menu.jpg

kingfisher-menu.jpg

327 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

20 ms

settings

settings

99 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

2 ms

embeds

embeds

29 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

11 ms

layout-small-min.css

layout-small-min.css

81 ms

api.js

api.js

30 ms

layout-medium-min.css

layout-medium-min.css

82 ms

Accessibility Review

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ukwaterwaysguide.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 Ukwaterwaysguide.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 Ukwaterwaysguide.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

ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk

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