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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thepaddlecoach.com

THE PADDLE COACH | Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) and Outrigger Canoe (OC) Lessons, Certifications, Wilderness Trips, Camps and Race Coaching

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

946 ms

Page Rendered

338 ms

About Website

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THE PADDLE COACH | Your stand up paddleboard (SUP) and Outrigger Canoe experts servicing Barrie, Toronto and Port Credit.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepaddlecoach.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepaddlecoach.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thepaddlecoach.com

165 ms

master_css.css

22 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

58 ms

FormValidation.js

37 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Thepaddlecoach.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to T8.prnx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (432 ms) relates to the external source Web4.realtracker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

699.1 kB

After Optimization

606.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepaddlecoach.com main page is 699.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 605.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 30.5 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 26.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 605.9 kB
  • After minification 560.6 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. THE PADDLE COACH images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 15.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Thepaddlecoach.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.1 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (54%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of THE PADDLE COACH. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thepaddlecoach.com accessibility score

61

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thepaddlecoach.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thepaddlecoach.com SEO score

69

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

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 Thepaddlecoach.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 Thepaddlecoach.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 THE PADDLE COACH. 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: