Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

gulfviewballooning.com

Alabama Gulf Coast Hot Air Ballooning | Gulf Shores - Orange Beach Hot Air Balloon Rides

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

747 ms

Page Rendered

249 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulfviewballooning.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 996 ms 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

gulfviewballooning.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,680 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gulfviewballooning.com

98 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

29 ms

shadowbox.css

25 ms

shadowbox.js

102 ms

jquery-1.8.2.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Gulfviewballooning.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (316 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

865.7 kB

After Optimization

611.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Gulfviewballooning.com main page is 865.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 439.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 22.8 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 16.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 336.9 kB
  • After minification 335.4 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. Gulf View Ballooning images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 232.5 kB

  • Original 439.1 kB
  • After minification 439.1 kB
  • After compression 206.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 232.5 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 66.9 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Gulfviewballooning.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (49%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf View Ballooning. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gulfviewballooning.com accessibility score

60

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

gulfviewballooning.com best practices score

58

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

gulfviewballooning.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Gulfviewballooning.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 Gulfviewballooning.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 Gulf View Ballooning. 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: