Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

bikehike.org

Cycling and cycling tourism. BikeHike Bicycle Site

Page Load Speed

15.6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

12.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

bikehike.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bike Hike content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bikehike.org

The BikeHike website was created for cycling and cycling enthusiasts. Useful information about preparing for a bike trip, reports and hiking routes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bikehike.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 14 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bikehike.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bikehike.org

1546 ms

jquery.js

978 ms

common.js

652 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

821 ms

colorbox.css

974 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Bikehike.org, 12% (13 requests) were made to Vk.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bikehike.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 565.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

910.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Bikehike.org main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 698.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 44.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 698.7 kB
  • After minification 678.4 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. Bike Hike images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 259.6 kB

  • Original 434.2 kB
  • After minification 371.1 kB
  • After compression 174.7 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 259.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 241.1 kB

  • Original 285.8 kB
  • After minification 224.3 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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. Bikehike.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 241.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (50%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bike Hike. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bikehike.org accessibility score

77

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

bikehike.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

bikehike.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Bikehike.org 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 Bikehike.org 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 Bike Hike. 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: