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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

geocaching.com

Geocaching

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

349 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geocaching.com page load time and found that the first response time was 349 ms and then it took 1.8 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

geocaching.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,910 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.geocaching.com

349 ms

play

136 ms

uc.js

30 ms

css

39 ms

lohp-layout.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Geocaching.com, 18% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) belongs to the original domain Geocaching.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

175.9 kB

After Optimization

71.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geocaching.com main page is 175.9 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. Javascripts take 113.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 2.7 kB, which is 12% 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 15.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 34.9 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

-78%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 113.2 kB
  • After minification 113.2 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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 87.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 589 B

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Geocaching.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (29%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.geocaching.com

www.geocaching.com

349 ms

play

play

136 ms

uc.js

uc.js

30 ms

css

css

39 ms

lohp-layout.css

lohp-layout.css

84 ms

lohp

lohp

909 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

61 ms

phoneframe.png

phoneframe.png

172 ms

en-US.jpg

en-US.jpg

410 ms

badge-apple.svg

badge-apple.svg

279 ms

badge-google-play.png

badge-google-play.png

400 ms

signal.svg

signal.svg

281 ms

phoneandpin.svg

phoneandpin.svg

275 ms

notebookpencil.svg

notebookpencil.svg

409 ms

font

font

267 ms

js

js

47 ms

js

js

140 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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 it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Geocaching.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 Geocaching. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: