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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com

Rick Steves Europe: Tours, Travel, TV & Vacations

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

584 ms

Page Rendered

277 ms

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About Website

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Rick Steves is America's leading authority on European travel. Plan your own trip or take one of Rick's value-packed European tours and vacations. Everything you need is here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 861 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.01

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com

194 ms

js

175 ms

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99 ms

application-2bc2b118f55e3cdc371017c38e07b1ba23f5f4dcf689c345409a23d5bea216db.js

42 ms

analytics.js

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com, 46% (12 requests) were made to D3dqioy2sca31t.cloudfront.net and 38% (10 requests) were made to D2zwvgyp7l6t28.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) belongs to the original domain Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 81.7 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 56.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Rick Steves Cms Herokuapp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 115.2 kB
  • After compression 115.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rick Steves Cms Herokuapp. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com

194 ms

js

js

175 ms

application-917e9bcaf515b07425c431ec7863a486c2d93242268bf40fdbc39fc5fce2cfef.css

application-917e9bcaf515b07425c431ec7863a486c2d93242268bf40fdbc39fc5fce2cfef.css

99 ms

application-2bc2b118f55e3cdc371017c38e07b1ba23f5f4dcf689c345409a23d5bea216db.js

application-2bc2b118f55e3cdc371017c38e07b1ba23f5f4dcf689c345409a23d5bea216db.js

42 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

101 ms

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marquee-home-france-paris-eiffel-tower-at-dusk.jpg

129 ms

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63 ms

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55 ms

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62 ms

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63 ms

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marquee-home-france-paris-st-chapelle-stained-glass.jpg

92 ms

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marquee-home-england-tintagel-door.jpg

100 ms

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tile-home-explore-france-paris-louvre-night.jpg

93 ms

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183 ms

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88 ms

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92 ms

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112 ms

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108 ms

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118 ms

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119 ms

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103 ms

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62 ms

collect

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22 ms

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16 ms

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15 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.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 Ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.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

ricksteves-cms.herokuapp.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rick Steves Cms Herokuapp. 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: