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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

andyintherockies.com

Trip reports, videos, and photos from climbing and mountaineering trips in Colorado and beyond - Andy in the Rockies

Page Load Speed

400 ms in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

318 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Welcome to andyintherockies.com homepage info - get ready to check Andy Inthe Rockies best content right away, or after learning these important things about andyintherockies.com

Andy's collection of trip reports, photos, videos, and maps from climbing and mountaineering trips (and other miscellaneous adventures) in the Colorado Rockies and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Andyintherockies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 318 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

andyintherockies.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

andyintherockies.com

82 ms

www.andyintherockies.com

115 ms

js

84 ms

style.css

28 ms

textfade.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Andyintherockies.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (115 ms) belongs to the original domain Andyintherockies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

150.8 kB

After Optimization

120.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Andyintherockies.com main page is 150.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 79.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 11.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 388 B

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 49.7 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. Andy Inthe Rockies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 79.6 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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 14.8 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 783 B

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. Andyintherockies.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (67%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Andy Inthe Rockies. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

andyintherockies.com

andyintherockies.com

82 ms

www.andyintherockies.com

www.andyintherockies.com

115 ms

js

js

84 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

textfade.js

textfade.js

46 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

18 ms

js

js

58 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

11 ms

background-wrapper-10.jpg

background-wrapper-10.jpg

43 ms

corner_b_ul.gif

corner_b_ul.gif

14 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

15 ms

corner_b_ur.gif

corner_b_ur.gif

44 ms

20060514_016.jpg

20060514_016.jpg

45 ms

corner_b_ll.gif

corner_b_ll.gif

44 ms

corner_b_lr.gif

corner_b_lr.gif

44 ms

corner_ul.gif

corner_ul.gif

44 ms

corner_ur.gif

corner_ur.gif

45 ms

me04.jpg

me04.jpg

45 ms

corner_ll.gif

corner_ll.gif

46 ms

corner_lr.gif

corner_lr.gif

46 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

16 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

25 ms

Accessibility Review

andyintherockies.com accessibility score

82

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

andyintherockies.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

andyintherockies.com SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Andyintherockies.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 Andyintherockies.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

andyintherockies.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Andy Inthe Rockies. 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: