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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% 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

americasboatingcourse.com

Online boating safety course, boating license test, certification

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

792 ms

Page Rendered

888 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americasboatingcourse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americasboatingcourse.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americasboatingcourse.com

65 ms

americasboatingcourse.com

102 ms

www.americasboatingcourse.com

141 ms

custom.css

53 ms

meanmenu.min.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Americasboatingcourse.com, 38% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (307 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americasboatingcourse.com main page is 3.0 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 4.9 kB, which is 14% 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 28.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Americas Boating Course images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 266.2 kB
  • After minification 266.2 kB
  • After compression 230.8 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 35.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 43.4 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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. Americasboatingcourse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Americas Boating Course. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americasboatingcourse.com

americasboatingcourse.com

65 ms

americasboatingcourse.com

americasboatingcourse.com

102 ms

www.americasboatingcourse.com

www.americasboatingcourse.com

141 ms

custom.css

custom.css

53 ms

meanmenu.min.css

meanmenu.min.css

75 ms

style.css

style.css

76 ms

home.css

home.css

73 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

75 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

77 ms

80adea8c7f.js

80adea8c7f.js

70 ms

js

js

64 ms

js

js

307 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

32 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

34 ms

jquery.meanmenu.min.js

jquery.meanmenu.min.js

76 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

151 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

44 ms

api.js

api.js

101 ms

css2

css2

29 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

201 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

182 ms

slider.jpg

slider.jpg

188 ms

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180 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

178 ms

speedboat.png

speedboat.png

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wave-overlay.svg

wave-overlay.svg

177 ms

boat_handling.jpg

boat_handling.jpg

180 ms

marine_navigation_course-1.jpg

marine_navigation_course-1.jpg

193 ms

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advanced_marine_navigation_course-1-1.jpg

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usps-logo.svg

188 ms

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Accessibility Review

americasboatingcourse.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.

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

Best Practices

americasboatingcourse.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americasboatingcourse.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

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 Americasboatingcourse.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 Americasboatingcourse.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

americasboatingcourse.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Americas Boating Course. 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: