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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

bargedirect.com

Barging (barge cruising)on French canals and rivers: hotel boat and barge cruises on barge Merganser

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

460 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bargedirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 460 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bargedirect.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bargedirect.com

460 ms

Bignicourt%20sur%20Saulx%20September%202018.jpg

871 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Bargedirect.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (871 ms) belongs to the original domain Bargedirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 578.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Bargedirect.com main page is 2.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 446.0 kB

  • Original 463.5 kB
  • After minification 420.9 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 446.0 kB or 96% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 132.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Barge Direct images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • Images

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barge Direct. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bargedirect.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bargedirect.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

SEO Factors

bargedirect.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bargedirect.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 Bargedirect.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Barge Direct. 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: