Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

americanrover.com

American Rover | Norfolk Cruises, Boat Tours & Charters - Virginia

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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American Rover offers Norfolk cruises, boat tours and charters departing from Waterside Marina in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Choose one of our sailing cruises and book now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanrover.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanrover.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanrover.com

12 ms

www.americanrover.com

578 ms

signup-form-w%E2%80%A6

656 ms

ldi83w311p

2078 ms

bat.js

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Americanrover.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Clarity.ms.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 161.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanrover.com main page is 3.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 110.3 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 121.3 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 17.0 kB, which is 12% 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 110.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. American Rover images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 96.4 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. Americanrover.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (59%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Rover. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americanrover.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

americanrover.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

americanrover.com SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Americanrover.com 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 Americanrover.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

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