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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

blueridgehikingco.com

Guided Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips, Asheville NC | Blue Ridge Hiking Co.

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

457 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueridgehikingco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blueridgehikingco.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.274

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blueridgehikingco.com

145 ms

blueridgehikingco.com

254 ms

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56 ms

css_ZFgmA8r-LAju05qQJ2-sqBT83BVCXLRw57BDiuo_gPE.css

110 ms

css_rxUaTtjuxeInr2hOkYnzO1yfeEZSn7y-C9N_A_3m_1I.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Blueridgehikingco.com, 48% (38 requests) were made to Static.cdninstagram.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (637 ms) relates to the external source Instagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 955.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blueridgehikingco.com main page is 5.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 28.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 913.0 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Obviously, Blue Ridge Hiking Co needs image optimization as it can save up to 913.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 76.1 kB
  • After minification 76.1 kB
  • After compression 62.5 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 13.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 242 B

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. Blueridgehikingco.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (66%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Ridge Hiking Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blueridgehikingco.com accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

blueridgehikingco.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

blueridgehikingco.com SEO score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Blueridgehikingco.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 Blueridgehikingco.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 Blue Ridge Hiking Co. 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: