Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

boatersuniversity.com

Online Boating Education | Boaters University | AIM Marine Group

Page Load Speed

822 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

691 ms

Page Rendered

83 ms

boatersuniversity.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boatersuniversity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 774 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boatersuniversity.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.115

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boatersuniversity.com

48 ms

www.boatersuniversity.com

124 ms

1691-7a037b7494297123a791.css

107 ms

5870-ebfd13973f9a4df390af.css

100 ms

a2cbf772-3574-42ee-9007-c4e563505d8a--08aea28108--v2.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Boatersuniversity.com, 53% (10 requests) were made to D36ai2hkxl16us.cloudfront.net and 11% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

222.3 kB

After Optimization

175.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Boatersuniversity.com main page is 222.3 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. Javascripts take 154.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 46.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Boaters University images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 154.4 kB
  • After minification 154.4 kB
  • After compression 154.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (82%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boaters University. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boatersuniversity.com accessibility score

78

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

Best Practices

boatersuniversity.com 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

boatersuniversity.com SEO score

77

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boatersuniversity.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 Boatersuniversity.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 description is not detected on the main page of Boaters University. 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: