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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

coloradoghosttowns.com

Colorado ghost towns, mining camps, four wheel drive trips, hiking trails

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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About Website

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The Colorado guide to mountain ghost towns, mining camps, boomtowns, and historic sites. Provides photos, maps & directions of many scenic drives, four-wheel trips and hiking trails.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coloradoghosttowns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coloradoghosttowns.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coloradoghosttowns.com

343 ms

southparkcity_sm.gif

176 ms

14erlogo_sm.jpg

56 ms

leadville_com_buttonsm.jpg

58 ms

vwlogo_sm.jpg

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Coloradoghosttowns.com, 20% (2 requests) were made to Fourteenernet.com and 20% (2 requests) were made to Leadville.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Leadville.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

48.7 kB

After Optimization

40.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Coloradoghosttowns.com main page is 48.7 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 38.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 7.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 38.2 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. Colorado Ghost Towns images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colorado Ghost Towns. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

coloradoghosttowns.com

coloradoghosttowns.com

343 ms

southparkcity_sm.gif

southparkcity_sm.gif

176 ms

14erlogo_sm.jpg

14erlogo_sm.jpg

56 ms

leadville_com_buttonsm.jpg

leadville_com_buttonsm.jpg

58 ms

vwlogo_sm.jpg

vwlogo_sm.jpg

104 ms

parch_wood.jpg

parch_wood.jpg

158 ms

shim.gif

shim.gif

145 ms

tour_circle_sm.jpg

tour_circle_sm.jpg

159 ms

14erlogo_sm.jpg

14erlogo_sm.jpg

46 ms

leadville_com_buttonsm.jpg

leadville_com_buttonsm.jpg

1104 ms

Accessibility Review

coloradoghosttowns.com accessibility score

55

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

coloradoghosttowns.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

coloradoghosttowns.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Coloradoghosttowns.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 Coloradoghosttowns.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Colorado Ghost Towns. 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: