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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

blackbeardfestival.com

Blackbeard Pirate Festival | Hampton, VA - Official Website

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

517 ms

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About Website

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Once a year visitors from all over the country enjoy the sights and sounds of 18th century Hampton overrun by pirates. Hampton’s waterfront comes alive with dozens of pirate re-enactors, costumed in h...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackbeardfestival.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 2.6 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

blackbeardfestival.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,720 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.352

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackbeardfestival.com

10 ms

95 ms

index.aspx

46 ms

index.aspx

182 ms

Blackbeard-Pirate-Festival

464 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blackbeardfestival.com, 68% (41 requests) were made to Hampton.gov and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (981 ms) relates to the external source Hampton.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackbeardfestival.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 72.1 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 72.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 989.0 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. Blackbeard Festival images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 279.5 kB
  • After minification 279.4 kB
  • After compression 268.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. Blackbeardfestival.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (47%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackbeard Festival. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackbeardfestival.com

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10 ms

95 ms

index.aspx

index.aspx

46 ms

index.aspx

index.aspx

182 ms

Blackbeard-Pirate-Festival

Blackbeard-Pirate-Festival

464 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

35 ms

antiforgery

antiforgery

87 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

129 ms

jQuery-migrate-1.4.1.js

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171 ms

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17 ms

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176 ms

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267 ms

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187 ms

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187 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

213 ms

Calendar.js

Calendar.js

218 ms

jquery.urlToLink.min.js

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221 ms

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178 ms

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214 ms

Moment.min.js

Moment.min.js

218 ms

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220 ms

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402 ms

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47 ms

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49 ms

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46 ms

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66 ms

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89 ms

analytics.js

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45 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

23 ms

base.js

base.js

55 ms

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345 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

233 ms

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159 ms

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88 ms

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103 ms

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103 ms

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85 ms

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15 ms

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72 ms

GenerateIT

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17 ms

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45 ms

Accessibility Review

blackbeardfestival.com accessibility score

90

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blackbeardfestival.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blackbeardfestival.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Blackbeardfestival.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 Blackbeardfestival.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

blackbeardfestival.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blackbeard Festival. 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: