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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

geocaching.com

Geocaching

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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About Website

Visit geocaching.com now to see the best up-to-date Geocaching content for Germany and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about geocaching.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geocaching.com page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geocaching.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geocaching.com

133 ms

www.geocaching.com

216 ms

www.geocaching.com

291 ms

play

241 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Geocaching.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (621 ms) belongs to the original domain Geocaching.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

838.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geocaching.com main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 709.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 4.1 kB, which is 16% 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 19.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 709.7 kB
  • After minification 709.7 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. Geocaching images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 101.2 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 181.8 kB
  • After compression 81.1 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 101.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.3 kB

  • Original 243.6 kB
  • After minification 243.5 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Geocaching.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (18%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geocaching. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

geocaching.com

geocaching.com

133 ms

www.geocaching.com

www.geocaching.com

216 ms

www.geocaching.com

www.geocaching.com

291 ms

play

play

241 ms

css

css

59 ms

home

home

130 ms

modernizr

modernizr

268 ms

jquery

jquery

348 ms

jqueryval

jqueryval

157 ms

plugins

plugins

198 ms

home

home

201 ms

scroll-arrow.svg

scroll-arrow.svg

67 ms

icon-compass.svg

icon-compass.svg

72 ms

illustration-laptop.svg

illustration-laptop.svg

254 ms

illustration-geocache.svg

illustration-geocache.svg

152 ms

illustration-notebook.svg

illustration-notebook.svg

196 ms

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1YTqitVK-Ts

117 ms

static-desktop.jpg

static-desktop.jpg

271 ms

logo-geocaching.png

logo-geocaching.png

150 ms

language-dropdown-caret.svg

language-dropdown-caret.svg

192 ms

arrow@2x.png

arrow@2x.png

212 ms

sprite-play-pause.png

sprite-play-pause.png

213 ms

facebook-connect.svg

facebook-connect.svg

256 ms

line1-desktop.svg

line1-desktop.svg

259 ms

line2-desktop.svg

line2-desktop.svg

276 ms

english_newyork.png

english_newyork.png

593 ms

store-apple.svg

store-apple.svg

320 ms

store-google.svg

store-google.svg

324 ms

store-windows.svg

store-windows.svg

386 ms

topographic-footer.png

topographic-footer.png

621 ms

sprite-social.png

sprite-social.png

341 ms

control-close-video.png

control-close-video.png

391 ms

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25 ms

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94 ms

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www-embed-player-vflZsBgOl.css

53 ms

www-embed-lightweight.js

www-embed-lightweight.js

73 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

79 ms

nearbycachecount

nearbycachecount

351 ms

hqdefault.jpg

hqdefault.jpg

37 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

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5 ms

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6 ms

collect

collect

56 ms

Accessibility Review

geocaching.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

geocaching.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

geocaching.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Geocaching.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 Geocaching.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 data is detected on the main page of Geocaching. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: