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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

hotairballoon.com

Hot Air Balloon Festivals Rallies and Events around the World

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

451 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

139 ms

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About Website

Visit hotairballoon.com now to see the best up-to-date Hot Air Balloon content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hotairballoon.com

HotAirBalloon.com has the most complete directory and calendar of hot air balloon festivals, fairs, rallies and events around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotairballoon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 451 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

hotairballoon.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hotairballoon.com

451 ms

style1.css

70 ms

maps

29 ms

show_ads.js

28 ms

hometop.jpg

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Hotairballoon.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (451 ms) belongs to the original domain Hotairballoon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

353.5 kB

After Optimization

216.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hotairballoon.com main page is 353.5 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 148.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 39.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 148.7 kB
  • After minification 143.4 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. Hot Air Balloon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 141.6 kB
  • After minification 141.5 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 86.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Hotairballoon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (50%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hot Air Balloon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hotairballoon.com

hotairballoon.com

451 ms

style1.css

style1.css

70 ms

maps

maps

29 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

28 ms

hometop.jpg

hometop.jpg

207 ms

ca-pub-5076534803469303.js

ca-pub-5076534803469303.js

47 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

41 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

59 ms

buttonbg.gif

buttonbg.gif

108 ms

ads

ads

219 ms

osd.js

osd.js

10 ms

ads

ads

205 ms

ads

ads

181 ms

ads.js

ads.js

134 ms

css

css

72 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

50 ms

abg.js

abg.js

54 ms

142 ms

adj

adj

102 ms

beacon

beacon

59 ms

2.gif

2.gif

37 ms

favicon

favicon

66 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

42 ms

s

s

49 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

58 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

41 ms

New%20folder_56_VS-Code-728x90-B.png

New%20folder_56_VS-Code-728x90-B.png

246 ms

ddcssl.htm

ddcssl.htm

205 ms

37 ms

0

0

239 ms

surly.js

surly.js

234 ms

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

37 ms

Hgo13k-tfSpn0qi1SFdUfT8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff

Hgo13k-tfSpn0qi1SFdUfT8E0i7KZn-EPnyo3HZu7kw.woff

93 ms

index.html

index.html

257 ms

verify_selector.js

verify_selector.js

189 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

183 ms

pixel

pixel

26 ms

verifyr.js

verifyr.js

47 ms

ba.html

ba.html

62 ms

pixel

pixel

68 ms

4.gif

4.gif

72 ms

lidar.js

lidar.js

8 ms

sbhK2lTE.js

sbhK2lTE.js

7 ms

cTrvNaRi.html

cTrvNaRi.html

8 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

129 ms

0

0

19 ms

bg.png

bg.png

26 ms

adchoices.en.png

adchoices.en.png

59 ms

4311.js

4311.js

108 ms

pixel

pixel

14 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

Rejuvenation_160x600_logo.gif

Rejuvenation_160x600_logo.gif

35 ms

Rejuvenation_160x600_bg.jpg

Rejuvenation_160x600_bg.jpg

61 ms

sd

sd

4 ms

Accessibility Review

hotairballoon.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Best Practices

hotairballoon.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hotairballoon.com SEO score

96

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hotairballoon.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 Hotairballoon.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

hotairballoon.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hot Air Balloon. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: