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appalachiantrials.com

The Trek - Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and All Things Thru-Hiking

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Appalachiantrials.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

appalachiantrials.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

appalachiantrials.com

1103 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

21 ms

reviews-widget.css

29 ms

flick.css

29 ms

appalachiantrials.com

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Appalachiantrials.com, 7% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Appalachiantrials.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (35%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Appalachiantrials.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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 194.0 kB

  • Original 241.9 kB
  • After minification 241.6 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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 194.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 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. Appalachian Trials images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 893.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 429.5 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 893.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 247.9 kB

  • Original 297.3 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. Appalachiantrials.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (46%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Appalachian Trials. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Appalachiantrials.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 Appalachiantrials.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 description is not detected on the main page of Appalachian Trials. 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: