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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

hikercentral.com

Hiker Central

Page Load Speed

680 ms in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

477 ms

Page Rendered

181 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hikercentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 658 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hikercentral.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hikercentral.com

22 ms

hikercentral.com

96 ms

js

112 ms

background20.jpg

212 ms

spacegy_certified.gif

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Hikercentral.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Pikpuk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (216 ms) relates to the external source Spacegy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

363.7 kB

After Optimization

331.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hikercentral.com main page is 363.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 253.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 22.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 253.4 kB
  • After minification 244.0 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. Hiker Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 80.7 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 322 B
  • After minification 322 B
  • After compression 245 B

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. Hikercentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hiker Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hikercentral.com accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hikercentral.com best practices score

50

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hikercentral.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hikercentral.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 Hikercentral.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hiker Central. 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: