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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

pilotadvice.com

Pilot Advice | Looking for a Flight School? Get Pilot Training. Learn how to fly!

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

751 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pilot Advice content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pilotadvice.com

Pilot Advice is an online guide for learning how to fly. We provide a directory of flight schools and pilot training tips. You can also read about aviation and flying related news and resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pilotadvice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 751 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pilotadvice.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pilotadvice.com

751 ms

fivestar.css

65 ms

oxygen.css

126 ms

node.css

124 ms

defaults.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Pilotadvice.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Bestaviationsites.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Serv3.avitop.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.5 kB (28%)

Content Size

106.9 kB

After Optimization

77.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pilotadvice.com main page is 106.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 46.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 18.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 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. Pilot Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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 6.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. Pilotadvice.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (80%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pilot Advice. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pilotadvice.com accessibility score

65

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

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

pilotadvice.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

SEO Factors

pilotadvice.com SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Pilotadvice.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 Pilotadvice.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 Pilot Advice. 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: