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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

boatdesigns.com

Glen-L Burgee

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

272 ms

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About Website

Visit boatdesigns.com now to see the best up-to-date Boatdesigns content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about boatdesigns.com

Proven Boat designs, and how-to information for boat building. Boat plans are for beginners and have been built by thousands since 1953.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boatdesigns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boatdesigns.com performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boatdesigns.com

221 ms

www.boatdesigns.com

575 ms

topnav.css

163 ms

sidenav.css

163 ms

storestyle.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Boatdesigns.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Seal.godaddy.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Verify.authorize.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) relates to the external source Link.e.glen-l.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

869.5 kB

After Optimization

781.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boatdesigns.com main page is 869.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 800.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 25.9 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.9 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 27.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 800.2 kB
  • After minification 755.2 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. Boatdesigns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Boatdesigns.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (11%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boatdesigns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

boatdesigns.com

boatdesigns.com

221 ms

www.boatdesigns.com

www.boatdesigns.com

575 ms

topnav.css

topnav.css

163 ms

sidenav.css

sidenav.css

163 ms

storestyle.css

storestyle.css

165 ms

footernav.css

footernav.css

166 ms

design.css

design.css

375 ms

sitelinklogonew.jpg

sitelinklogonew.jpg

594 ms

newcart_Img.gif

newcart_Img.gif

416 ms

btn_go.gif

btn_go.gif

428 ms

fblogo.jpg

fblogo.jpg

492 ms

twitterlogo.jpg

twitterlogo.jpg

567 ms

pintrestlogo.jpg

pintrestlogo.jpg

655 ms

getSeal

getSeal

1193 ms

youtubelogo.jpg

youtubelogo.jpg

576 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

429 ms

KNOWLEDGEBASE.JPG

KNOWLEDGEBASE.JPG

596 ms

seal.js

seal.js

307 ms

at

at

6108 ms

139244_medal.gif

139244_medal.gif

101 ms

search-bg.gif

search-bg.gif

247 ms

mainnav-bg.gif

mainnav-bg.gif

295 ms

boatdesignslogo.jpg

boatdesignslogo.jpg

857 ms

sm-519.jpg

sm-519.jpg

539 ms

sm-960.jpg

sm-960.jpg

641 ms

sm-1327.jpg

sm-1327.jpg

628 ms

sm-1200.jpg

sm-1200.jpg

635 ms

sm-922.jpg

sm-922.jpg

674 ms

sm-932.jpg

sm-932.jpg

707 ms

sm-1009.jpg

sm-1009.jpg

803 ms

sm-1525.jpg

sm-1525.jpg

803 ms

sm-1538.jpg

sm-1538.jpg

833 ms

rc-promo.jpg

rc-promo.jpg

862 ms

logo-sitelink7.png

logo-sitelink7.png

778 ms

card.gif

card.gif

862 ms

siteseal_gd_3_h_d_m.gif

siteseal_gd_3_h_d_m.gif

77 ms

ga.js

ga.js

103 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

46 ms

secure90x72.gif

secure90x72.gif

22 ms

Accessibility Review

boatdesigns.com accessibility score

51

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.

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

boatdesigns.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

boatdesigns.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boatdesigns.com 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 Boatdesigns.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

boatdesigns.com

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