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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

travel.discovery.com

Travel Shows, Destinations, and Expert Advice | Travel Channel

Page Load Speed

95 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

35 ms

Page Rendered

50 ms

About Website

Welcome to travel.discovery.com homepage info - get ready to check Travel Discovery best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about travel.discovery.com

Check out travel videos, shows, and guides on top travel destinations on Travel Channel. Get all tips, show updates, and trip ideas here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travel.discovery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 85 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travel.discovery.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

travel.discovery.com

10 ms

www.travelchannel.com

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Travel.discovery.com, 50% (1 request) were made to Travelchannel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13 ms) relates to the external source Travelchannel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 951.6 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Travel.discovery.com main page is 2.9 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 96 B

  • Original 299 B
  • After minification 295 B
  • After compression 203 B

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 96 B or 32% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 558.2 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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, Travel Discovery needs image optimization as it can save up to 558.2 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 205.9 kB
  • After compression 166.0 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 40.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 353.3 kB

  • Original 406.1 kB
  • After minification 405.5 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Travel.discovery.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 353.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

travel.discovery.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

travel.discovery.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

travel.discovery.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Travel.discovery.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 Travel.discovery.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 Travel Discovery. 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: