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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

glacierexplorer.com

Glacier Explorer - Marc Ankenbauer | Glacier Explorer

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

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About Website

Welcome to glacierexplorer.com homepage info - get ready to check Glacier Explorer best content right away, or after learning these important things about glacierexplorer.com

Marc Ankenbauer's ten year quest to swim in every lake in Waterton and Glacier National Parks for charity

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glacierexplorer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glacierexplorer.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glacierexplorer.com

212 ms

glacierexplorer.com

2212 ms

style.css

179 ms

style.min.css

239 ms

styles.css

358 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Glacierexplorer.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Zor.livefyre.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Glacierexplorer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

647.3 kB

After Optimization

516.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glacierexplorer.com main page is 647.3 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 382.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 71.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 382.9 kB
  • After minification 345.1 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. Glacier Explorer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 141.6 kB
  • After minification 141.6 kB
  • After compression 131.4 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

-35%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. Glacierexplorer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glacier Explorer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

glacierexplorer.com

glacierexplorer.com

212 ms

glacierexplorer.com

glacierexplorer.com

2212 ms

style.css

style.css

179 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

239 ms

styles.css

styles.css

358 ms

style.css

style.css

181 ms

style.css

style.css

181 ms

livefyre.js

livefyre.js

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

294 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

354 ms

1

1

55 ms

CommentCount.js

CommentCount.js

2 ms

index.js

index.js

441 ms

index.js

index.js

369 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

361 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

416 ms

superfish.args.min.js

superfish.args.min.js

480 ms

superfish.compat.min.js

superfish.compat.min.js

482 ms

css

css

16 ms

css

css

37 ms

bg.png

bg.png

216 ms

logo.png

logo.png

285 ms

bg-pattern.png

bg-pattern.png

270 ms

icon-dot.png

icon-dot.png

295 ms

2013-Lightroom-Class-Play-Pics-8200151-2-150x150.jpg

2013-Lightroom-Class-Play-Pics-8200151-2-150x150.jpg

471 ms

2014-05-26-Winter-Spring-Blog-Pic-18-of-30-150x150.jpg

2014-05-26-Winter-Spring-Blog-Pic-18-of-30-150x150.jpg

358 ms

RS10-150x150.jpg

RS10-150x150.jpg

402 ms

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untitled-192x100.png

580 ms

AGO-1-1-of-1-3-270x100.jpg

AGO-1-1-of-1-3-270x100.jpg

486 ms

Gear-Review-Pics-1-of-1-2-270x100.jpg

Gear-Review-Pics-1-of-1-2-270x100.jpg

541 ms

Thanksgiving-Post-1-1-of-1-8-270x100.jpg

Thanksgiving-Post-1-1-of-1-8-270x100.jpg

547 ms

IMG_20131104_151810_995-1-270x100.jpg

IMG_20131104_151810_995-1-270x100.jpg

586 ms

fishercap-post-post-4-of-5-270x100.jpg

fishercap-post-post-4-of-5-270x100.jpg

714 ms

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fishercap-post-1-of-1-3-270x100.jpg

701 ms

New-Marc-pic-e1342496468622.jpg

New-Marc-pic-e1342496468622.jpg

831 ms

Logo_National_Geographic_Ch.png

Logo_National_Geographic_Ch.png

60 ms

abc-news.png

abc-news.png

119 ms

frpa-widget.js

frpa-widget.js

55 ms

Logo_National_Geographic_Ch.png

Logo_National_Geographic_Ch.png

722 ms

frpa-widget.js

frpa-widget.js

51 ms

abc-news.png

abc-news.png

693 ms

fg-donation-page-redirect

fg-donation-page-redirect

143 ms

gradient.png

gradient.png

376 ms

symbol-defs.svg

symbol-defs.svg

550 ms

footer-widgets.png

footer-widgets.png

557 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

26 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

34 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

24 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

6 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

85 ms

embed

embed

84 ms

googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png

googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png

5 ms

iubenda.js

iubenda.js

29 ms

Accessibility Review

glacierexplorer.com accessibility score

86

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

glacierexplorer.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

glacierexplorer.com SEO score

98

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

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 Glacierexplorer.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 Glacierexplorer.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 Glacier Explorer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: