Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

hikerly.com

Hikerly — Hiking blog about seeing the world, one step at a time

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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About Website

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

A blog about hiking destinations in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Includes tips on training, gear and gadgets, trail descriptions, photos and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hikerly.com page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hikerly.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.69

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hikerly.com

197 ms

www.hikerly.com

251 ms

style.min.css

151 ms

style.min.css

228 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Hikerly.com, 27% (15 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) belongs to the original domain Hikerly.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

886.2 kB

After Optimization

703.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Hikerly.com main page is 886.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 472.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 68.1 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 60.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 125 B

  • Original 472.7 kB
  • After minification 472.6 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. Hikerly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 198.6 kB
  • After minification 196.9 kB
  • After compression 169.5 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 29.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 142.0 kB
  • After minification 141.4 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. Hikerly.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (58%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hikerly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hikerly.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

hikerly.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hikerly.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 Hikerly.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 Hikerly.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

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