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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

bostonfishstix.com

Boston Fishstix | Boston Fishstix charter fishing and guides Boston Harbor

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

283 ms

Resources Loaded

717 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

Visit bostonfishstix.com now to see the best up-to-date Boston Fishstix content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bostonfishstix.com

Boston Fishstix is a Boston Fishing Guide Service. We offer charters in Boston for striped bass, bluefish, and tuna with flyfishing and light tackle gear.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonfishstix.com page load time and found that the first response time was 283 ms and then it took 908 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostonfishstix.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.544

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bostonfishstix.com

283 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

base.css

45 ms

skeleton.css

45 ms

comments.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Bostonfishstix.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) belongs to the original domain Bostonfishstix.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

665.5 kB

After Optimization

607.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonfishstix.com main page is 665.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 538.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 4.4 kB, which is 17% 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 21.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 538.3 kB
  • After minification 520.2 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. Boston Fishstix images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 65.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. Bostonfishstix.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (43%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Fishstix. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bostonfishstix.com

www.bostonfishstix.com

283 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

base.css

base.css

45 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

45 ms

comments.css

comments.css

45 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

42 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

47 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

73 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

74 ms

styles.css

styles.css

69 ms

wp-paginate.css

wp-paginate.css

74 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

78 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

74 ms

typography-sans.css

typography-sans.css

97 ms

style.css

style.css

98 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

81 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

83 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

117 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

jquery.hoverIntent.js

118 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

119 ms

supersubs.js

supersubs.js

119 ms

chosen.jquery.js

chosen.jquery.js

122 ms

skeleton-key.js

skeleton-key.js

124 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

124 ms

BFX-HeaderLogo-270.png

BFX-HeaderLogo-270.png

82 ms

slider-1-carter.jpg

slider-1-carter.jpg

83 ms

slider-2-fish.jpg

slider-2-fish.jpg

89 ms

slider-3-boat.jpg

slider-3-boat.jpg

91 ms

slider-john.jpg

slider-john.jpg

90 ms

slider2.jpg

slider2.jpg

83 ms

fb.jpg

fb.jpg

81 ms

twtr.jpg

twtr.jpg

88 ms

gram.jpg

gram.jpg

88 ms

twitter_32.png

twitter_32.png

90 ms

facebook_32.png

facebook_32.png

91 ms

vimeo_32.png

vimeo_32.png

90 ms

linkedin_32.png

linkedin_32.png

92 ms

instagam_32.png

instagam_32.png

91 ms

noise-white.jpg

noise-white.jpg

84 ms

noise-grey.jpg

noise-grey.jpg

85 ms

pattern_diagonal_medium.png

pattern_diagonal_medium.png

90 ms

slide-shadow.png

slide-shadow.png

92 ms

img-bg-pat.png

img-bg-pat.png

91 ms

pop_link.png

pop_link.png

90 ms

post_link.png

post_link.png

97 ms

noise-black.jpg

noise-black.jpg

97 ms

pattern_diagonal_dark.png

pattern_diagonal_dark.png

107 ms

pattern_diagonal_white.png

pattern_diagonal_white.png

107 ms

flexslider_control_nav.png

flexslider_control_nav.png

39 ms

flexslider_direction_nav.png

flexslider_direction_nav.png

39 ms

Accessibility Review

bostonfishstix.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bostonfishstix.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bostonfishstix.com SEO score

81

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

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 doesn't use 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 Bostonfishstix.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 Bostonfishstix.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

bostonfishstix.com

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