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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

bwsailing.com

Blue Water Sailing | Sailing Stories | Art of Crusing | Sailing Gear

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

484 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

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Blue Water Sailing offers great sailing stories from cruisers and real world solutions for offshore sailors. Learn more about crusing and sailing gear with us.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bwsailing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 484 ms and then it took 6.1 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

bwsailing.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bwsailing.com

484 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

24 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

css

133 ms

dw-focus-2.min.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Bwsailing.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bwsailing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 766.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

9.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bwsailing.com main page is 10.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 152.9 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 162.1 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 152.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 424.0 kB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 9.2 MB

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. Bw Sailing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 87.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 174.6 kB

  • Original 224.3 kB
  • After minification 223.9 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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. Bwsailing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (20%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bw Sailing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bwsailing.com

www.bwsailing.com

484 ms

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Accessibility Review

bwsailing.com accessibility score

84

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

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

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

bwsailing.com best practices score

85

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bwsailing.com SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bwsailing.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 Bwsailing.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

bwsailing.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bw Sailing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: