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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bestplaces.net

Best Places to Live | Compare cost of living, crime, cities, schools and more. Sperling's BestPlaces

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

535 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

793 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestplaces.net page load time and found that the first response time was 535 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestplaces.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,690 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bestplaces.net

535 ms

gtm.js

70 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

338 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

337 ms

jquery.slidertron.min.js

337 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Bestplaces.net, 43% (23 requests) were made to Img.bestplaces.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) relates to the external source Img.bestplaces.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestplaces.net main page is 4.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 126.4 kB

  • Original 171.9 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 126.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 207.6 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Best Places images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 525.4 kB
  • After minification 525.4 kB
  • After compression 509.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 453 B

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Bestplaces.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (41%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Places. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bestplaces.net

www.bestplaces.net

535 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

70 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

338 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

jquery.dropotron.min.js

337 ms

jquery.slidertron.min.js

jquery.slidertron.min.js

337 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

367 ms

bpstyle.css

bpstyle.css

336 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

352 ms

all.js

all.js

107 ms

highmaps.js

highmaps.js

105 ms

css

css

56 ms

css

css

103 ms

js

js

42 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

178 ms

quant.js

quant.js

268 ms

elasticsearch.jquery.min.js

elasticsearch.jquery.min.js

390 ms

elasticsearch.min.js

elasticsearch.min.js

479 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

317 ms

ionicons.esm.js

ionicons.esm.js

314 ms

ionicons.js

ionicons.js

332 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

354 ms

collect

collect

130 ms

collect

collect

147 ms

maze-universal-loader.js

maze-universal-loader.js

96 ms

bp_logo1.png

bp_logo1.png

513 ms

family_homepage_large.png

family_homepage_large.png

832 ms

family_homepage_img.jpg

family_homepage_img.jpg

931 ms

dad-and-kid.jpg

dad-and-kid.jpg

585 ms

aarp.png

aarp.png

394 ms

forbes_black.png

forbes_black.png

392 ms

nyt_black.png

nyt_black.png

444 ms

usatoday_black.png

usatoday_black.png

447 ms

newsweek_black.png

newsweek_black.png

509 ms

wp_black.png

wp_black.png

513 ms

amex.png

amex.png

575 ms

cnbc.svg

cnbc.svg

577 ms

cnn.png

cnn.png

580 ms

mcdonalds.png

mcdonalds.png

640 ms

usaa.png

usaa.png

643 ms

yahoo.svg

yahoo.svg

647 ms

navy.svg

navy.svg

650 ms

coldwell_banker.png

coldwell_banker.png

705 ms

CITY-REPORT.png

CITY-REPORT.png

775 ms

cherry-blossoms.jpg

cherry-blossoms.jpg

781 ms

top-petfriendly-places-motel6.png

top-petfriendly-places-motel6.png

855 ms

KetchikanAlaska.jpg

KetchikanAlaska.jpg

835 ms

tv1.jpg

tv1.jpg

841 ms

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46 ms

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57 ms

webresource.axd

webresource.axd

162 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

148 ms

404.aspx

404.aspx

80 ms

site-133118.js

site-133118.js

154 ms

hotjar-2854856.js

hotjar-2854856.js

155 ms

Accessibility Review

bestplaces.net accessibility score

83

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

bestplaces.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bestplaces.net SEO score

93

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

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 Bestplaces.net 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 Bestplaces.net 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

bestplaces.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Best Places. 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: