Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

growmaine.com

Maine Hotels, Restaurants, & Things to Do — Maine.com

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Growmaine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

growmaine.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

growmaine.com

16 ms

martymayor.com

3701 ms

bb-plugin.min.css

40 ms

main.min.css

77 ms

css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Growmaine.com, 66% (27 requests) were made to Martymayor.com and 15% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Martymayor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Growmaine.com main page is 3.9 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. 80% 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.3 kB

  • Original 134.9 kB
  • After minification 133.7 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 110.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 226.9 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Grow Maine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 250.1 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 205.3 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 44.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 101.8 kB
  • After compression 89.4 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. Growmaine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (49%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grow Maine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

growmaine.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.

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

growmaine.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

growmaine.com SEO score

93

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 Growmaine.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 Growmaine.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 Grow Maine. 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: