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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

aftonalps.com

Minnesota Skiing & Snowboarding | Afton Alps Resort

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

563 ms

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About Website

Visit aftonalps.com now to see the best up-to-date Afton Alps content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about aftonalps.com

Encompassed by the beautiful Afton State Park, guests enjoy breathtaking valley views for the finest Minnesota skiing experience, all near Saint Paul

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aftonalps.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aftonalps.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value40.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value55,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value74.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aftonalps.com

178 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

60 ms

screen.css

249 ms

Bootstrap.js

75 ms

shim.js

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Aftonalps.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) belongs to the original domain Aftonalps.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (21%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aftonalps.com main page is 5.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 9.7 kB, which is 27% 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 29.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 201.7 kB

  • Original 4.3 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. Afton Alps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 647.3 kB

  • Original 946.2 kB
  • After minification 908.0 kB
  • After compression 298.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 647.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 268.6 kB

  • Original 317.5 kB
  • After minification 282.8 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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. Aftonalps.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 268.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (58%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afton Alps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.aftonalps.com

www.aftonalps.com

178 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

60 ms

screen.css

screen.css

249 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

75 ms

shim.js

shim.js

286 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

85 ms

underscore-1.5.2.min.js

underscore-1.5.2.min.js

51 ms

backbone-1.0.0.min.js

backbone-1.0.0.min.js

243 ms

mustache.js

mustache.js

124 ms

namespace.js

namespace.js

388 ms

resource-loader.js

resource-loader.js

88 ms

utilities.js

utilities.js

128 ms

main-nav.js

main-nav.js

126 ms

drop-down.js

drop-down.js

135 ms

distribute-box.js

distribute-box.js

217 ms

app.js

app.js

137 ms

background-selector.js

background-selector.js

216 ms

website.js

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219 ms

controltag

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42 ms

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134 ms

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295 ms

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145 ms

logo-background.png

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292 ms

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255 ms

resort-name.png

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225 ms

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230 ms

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226 ms

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230 ms

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239 ms

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242 ms

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241 ms

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245 ms

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245 ms

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246 ms

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247 ms

serverComponent.php

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33 ms

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319 ms

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544 ms

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193 ms

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analytics.js

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35 ms

ga.js

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51 ms

Afton-Alps-Snowmaking.JPG

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461 ms

collect

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49 ms

fbevents.js

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33 ms

s_code.js

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61 ms

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33 ms

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6 ms

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26 ms

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125 ms

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88 ms

dest5.html

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26 ms

optout_check

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27 ms

Accessibility Review

aftonalps.com accessibility score

79

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

aftonalps.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

aftonalps.com SEO score

71

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

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 Aftonalps.com 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 Aftonalps.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

aftonalps.com

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