Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

cruiserlog.com

Cruiser Log World Cruising & Sailing Forums - Powered by vBulletin

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

Visit cruiserlog.com now to see the best up-to-date Cruiser Log content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cruiserlog.com

Cruiser Log is a sailing forum where experienced sailors from from around the world meet to discuss the many aspects of their journies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cruiserlog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cruiserlog.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.419

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cruiserlog.com

40 ms

forums

15 ms

forums

21 ms

110 ms

vbulletin_important.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Cruiserlog.com, 30% (28 requests) were made to Cdn.socialknowledge.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (641 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.socialknowledge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

697.2 kB

After Optimization

593.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Cruiserlog.com main page is 697.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 427.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 94.7 kB

  • Original 116.3 kB
  • After minification 109.2 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 94.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 152.5 kB
  • After minification 145.4 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. Cruiser Log images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 427.8 kB
  • After minification 427.8 kB
  • After compression 426.0 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

-62%

Potential reduce by 378 B

  • Original 610 B
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 B

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. Cruiserlog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 378 B or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (35%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cruiser Log. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cruiserlog.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

cruiserlog.com best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cruiserlog.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cruiserlog.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Cruiserlog.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cruiser Log. 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: