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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

discoverthepast.com

Discover the Past Walking Tours | Ghostly Walks & History Tours in Victoria

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

591 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Discover The Past content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about discoverthepast.com

Best known for our spine-tingling Ghostly Walks, we also offer a full suite of interesting History Tours that run day and night, all year round.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverthepast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 4.8 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

discoverthepast.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverthepast.com

178 ms

mio8npd.css

79 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

43 ms

woocommerce.css

64 ms

wpfront-notification-bar.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverthepast.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Dipr2nuwo661l.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (851 ms) belongs to the original domain Discoverthepast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverthepast.com main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 227.4 kB

  • Original 270.8 kB
  • After minification 267.4 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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 227.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Discover The Past images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 805.3 kB
  • After minification 805.3 kB
  • After compression 765.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. Discoverthepast.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (58%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover The Past. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

discoverthepast.com accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

discoverthepast.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

discoverthepast.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Discoverthepast.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 Discoverthepast.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 data is detected on the main page of Discover The Past. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: