Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

alongdiscovery.com

Southwest China,Guizhou Tribal festival, village, textile tour

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

427 ms

alongdiscovery.com screenshot

About Website

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Along Discovery offers private tours to see authentic tribal festivals, textiles,ethnic villages,costume,embroidery stitches and market at remote regions in Southwest China focusing on Guizhou.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alongdiscovery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alongdiscovery.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.325

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alongdiscovery.com

1422 ms

jwplayer.js

829 ms

jquery.min.js

852 ms

Sweefty.js

512 ms

moaModal.minified.js

537 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Alongdiscovery.com, 45% (50 requests) were made to Alongdiscovery-x-com.img.addlink.cn and 1% (1 request) were made to L.longtailvideo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Alongdiscovery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 697.8 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Alongdiscovery.com main page is 2.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 198.7 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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. 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 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 499.8 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Alongdiscovery needs image optimization as it can save up to 499.8 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 134.9 kB
  • After minification 134.9 kB
  • After compression 125.0 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 458 B

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. Alongdiscovery.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (7%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alongdiscovery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alongdiscovery.com accessibility score

72

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

alongdiscovery.com best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

alongdiscovery.com SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    GB2312

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alongdiscovery.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 Alongdiscovery.com main page’s claimed encoding is gb2312. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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