Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

beachcolony.com

Beach Colony Resort Myrtle Beach: Oceanfront Condo Resort

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

901 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

641 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beachcolony.com page load time and found that the first response time was 901 ms and then it took 2.8 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

beachcolony.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.583

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beachcolony.com

901 ms

all.js

35 ms

foundation.css

128 ms

pickadate.01.default.css

113 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Beachcolony.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Widgets.guestdesk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (901 ms) belongs to the original domain Beachcolony.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Beachcolony.com main page is 4.0 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. 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. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 108.0 kB

  • Original 150.9 kB
  • After minification 142.3 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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 108.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 110.0 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Beach Colony images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 169.8 kB

  • Original 397.8 kB
  • After minification 397.8 kB
  • After compression 228.0 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 169.8 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 46.4 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Beachcolony.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (62%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beach Colony. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beachcolony.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

beachcolony.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

beachcolony.com SEO score

54

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Beachcolony.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 Beachcolony.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 Beach Colony. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: