Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

americandetectorist.com

American Detectorist - Metal Detecting Forums

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

959 ms

Page Rendered

135 ms

americandetectorist.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americandetectorist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americandetectorist.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americandetectorist.com

162 ms

www.americandetectorist.com

158 ms

styles_newsite.css

64 ms

jscript_fade.js

128 ms

photogallery.js

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Americandetectorist.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) belongs to the original domain Americandetectorist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

397.6 kB

After Optimization

369.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Americandetectorist.com main page is 397.6 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 280.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 5.3 kB, which is 29% 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 14.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 280.1 kB
  • After minification 266.5 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. American Detectorist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 62 B

  • Original 98.1 kB
  • After minification 98.1 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 219 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Americandetectorist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Detectorist. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

americandetectorist.com accessibility score

89

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

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

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>).

Best Practices

americandetectorist.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americandetectorist.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americandetectorist.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 Americandetectorist.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 American Detectorist. 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: