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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

exploretours.com

Alaska Tours | Alaska Vacations, Travel & Day Trips | Land Tours, Packages

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exploretours.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

exploretours.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.533

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.exploretours.com

1641 ms

screen.css

125 ms

rollovers.js

90 ms

ccm.base.css

89 ms

jquery.js

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Exploretours.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Exploretours.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

665.8 kB

After Optimization

520.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Exploretours.com main page is 665.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 469.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 22.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 469.4 kB
  • After minification 434.7 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. Explore Tours images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 137.9 kB
  • After compression 74.7 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 64.9 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Exploretours.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (36%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore Tours. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.exploretours.com

www.exploretours.com

1641 ms

screen.css

screen.css

125 ms

rollovers.js

rollovers.js

90 ms

ccm.base.css

ccm.base.css

89 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

213 ms

ccm.base.js

ccm.base.js

89 ms

view.css

view.css

581 ms

view.css

view.css

131 ms

view.css

view.css

131 ms

view.css

view.css

130 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

15 ms

bg_body.jpg

bg_body.jpg

255 ms

logo.png

logo.png

132 ms

tab_featured.png

tab_featured.png

60 ms

NOme.jpg

NOme.jpg

86 ms

tab_special.png

tab_special.png

61 ms

exit_glacier_hikers_atia.jpg

exit_glacier_hikers_atia.jpg

170 ms

91112c9e9b5d881013f564a0b737fc23_f1969.png

91112c9e9b5d881013f564a0b737fc23_f1969.png

172 ms

fb_btn.png

fb_btn.png

91 ms

twitter-bird-white-on-blue.png

twitter-bird-white-on-blue.png

130 ms

big-p-button.png

big-p-button.png

172 ms

search_btn.jpg

search_btn.jpg

168 ms

bg_home_two.gif

bg_home_two.gif

232 ms

48 ms

bg_footer_search.gif

bg_footer_search.gif

169 ms

dc.js

dc.js

54 ms

slideshow_banner_01.jpg

slideshow_banner_01.jpg

197 ms

41 ms

inpage_linkid.js

inpage_linkid.js

5 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

42 ms

Accessibility Review

exploretours.com accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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

exploretours.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

exploretours.com SEO score

91

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

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 Exploretours.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 Exploretours.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 description is not detected on the main page of Explore Tours. 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: