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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

celebrateboston.com

Boston Travel and Tourism Guide, Enjoy your Vacation in Historic Boston MA

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

916 ms

Page Rendered

126 ms

About Website

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Boston travel and vacation guide, with information on local events, historic sites and popular attractions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Celebrateboston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

celebrateboston.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,010 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

celebrateboston.com

142 ms

www.celebrateboston.com

154 ms

lefty.css

56 ms

adsbygoogle.js

103 ms

sdk.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Celebrateboston.com, 20% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

539.4 kB

After Optimization

456.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Celebrateboston.com main page is 539.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 326.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 22.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 182.6 kB
  • After minification 165.6 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. Celebrate Boston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 326.9 kB
  • After minification 326.9 kB
  • After compression 283.7 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 43.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 235 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Celebrateboston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 235 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Celebrate Boston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

celebrateboston.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.

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

celebrateboston.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

celebrateboston.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Celebrateboston.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 Celebrateboston.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 Celebrate Boston. 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: