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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

discoverlancaster.com

Discover Lancaster | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Amish Attractions, Shopping, Dining

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

855 ms

Page Rendered

474 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverlancaster.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverlancaster.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,060 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverlancaster.com

38 ms

www.discoverlancaster.com

315 ms

cdj4ivf.css

59 ms

gtm.js

272 ms

lx1gwij30y

319 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverlancaster.com, 12% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (346 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.userway.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

388.4 kB

After Optimization

274.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverlancaster.com main page is 388.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 137.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 34.1 kB, which is 25% 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 112.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 122.8 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. Discover Lancaster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 96.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 840 B

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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. Discoverlancaster.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (81%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Lancaster. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

discoverlancaster.com

discoverlancaster.com

38 ms

www.discoverlancaster.com

www.discoverlancaster.com

315 ms

cdj4ivf.css

cdj4ivf.css

59 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

272 ms

lx1gwij30y

lx1gwij30y

319 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

345 ms

widget.js

widget.js

346 ms

weather-icon.js

weather-icon.js

14 ms

crowdriff.js

crowdriff.js

87 ms

accessibility.svg

accessibility.svg

98 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

18 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

91 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

107 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

34 ms

skycons.js

skycons.js

30 ms

site-search.js

site-search.js

8 ms

js.cookie.js

js.cookie.js

16 ms

main.js

main.js

16 ms

p.css

p.css

263 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

38 ms

main-nav.js

main-nav.js

226 ms

fit-vids.js

fit-vids.js

227 ms

h-scroller.js

h-scroller.js

225 ms

wood.jpg

wood.jpg

202 ms

headroom.js

headroom.js

51 ms

a11y-dialog.js

a11y-dialog.js

31 ms

bison-demibold.woff

bison-demibold.woff

32 ms

bison-regular.woff

bison-regular.woff

31 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

64 ms

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35 ms

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35 ms

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36 ms

widget_app_base_1722425342139.js

widget_app_base_1722425342139.js

33 ms

Accessibility Review

discoverlancaster.com accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

discoverlancaster.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

discoverlancaster.com SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Discoverlancaster.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 Discoverlancaster.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

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