Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

charlesriverboat.com

Private Events & Yacht Charters in Boston & Cambridge, MA

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

charlesriverboat.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Charlesriverboat content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about charlesriverboat.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlesriverboat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlesriverboat.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlesriverboat.com

64 ms

charlesriverboat.com

1725 ms

style.min.css

33 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

45 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Charlesriverboat.com, 15% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Dipr2nuwo661l.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Charlesriverboat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Charlesriverboat.com main page is 2.9 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 327.0 kB

  • Original 373.4 kB
  • After minification 372.7 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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. 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 327.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Charlesriverboat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 945.7 kB
  • After minification 945.7 kB
  • After compression 888.8 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 150.9 kB
  • After minification 150.9 kB
  • After compression 125.2 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. Charlesriverboat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (64%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charlesriverboat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

charlesriverboat.com accessibility score

94

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

charlesriverboat.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

charlesriverboat.com SEO score

93

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