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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gaithersburgbookfestival.org

Gaithersburg Book Festival - One of America's Premier Book Fairs & Author Events

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

gaithersburgbookfestival.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gaithersburgbookfestival.org page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gaithersburgbookfestival.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org

230 ms

shareaholic.js

36 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

182 ms

ga.js

21 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Gaithersburgbookfestival.org, 6% (8 requests) were made to Dsum-sec.casalemedia.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Px.owneriq.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Gaithersburgbookfestival.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gaithersburgbookfestival.org main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 293.8 kB

  • Original 327.5 kB
  • After minification 308.9 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 293.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Gaithersburg Book Festival images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 715.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 327.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 715.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 146.4 kB

  • Original 171.0 kB
  • After minification 119.8 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Gaithersburgbookfestival.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (57%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gaithersburg Book Festival. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gaithersburgbookfestival.org accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

gaithersburgbookfestival.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

gaithersburgbookfestival.org 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Gaithersburgbookfestival.org 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 Gaithersburgbookfestival.org 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

gaithersburgbookfestival.org

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