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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

visitgolden.com

Golden, CO | Restaurants, Hotels, Things to Do & Shopping

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Visit Golden content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about visitgolden.com

Find everything you need to plan a trip to Golden, Colorado! Explore hotels, restaurants, events, world-class outdoor activities, and the famous Coors Brewery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitgolden.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitgolden.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.659

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitgolden.com

56 ms

www.visitgolden.com

131 ms

widget_cta.css

25 ms

shared.css

23 ms

widget_button.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 164 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Visitgolden.com, 26% (42 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com and 11% (18 requests) were made to Simpleview-ugc.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (412 ms) relates to the external source Assets.simpleviewinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

10.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visitgolden.com main page is 11.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 275.7 kB

  • Original 316.7 kB
  • After minification 294.0 kB
  • After compression 41.1 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 275.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 469.2 kB

  • Original 10.7 MB
  • After minification 10.3 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. Visit Golden images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 88.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 58.0 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Visitgolden.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (66%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Golden. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 57 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

visitgolden.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

visitgolden.com best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

visitgolden.com SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visitgolden.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 Visitgolden.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 data is detected on the main page of Visit Golden. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: