Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

kittyhawk.com

Kites - Hang Gliding Lessons - Kiteboarding Lessons - Kayak Tours | Kitty Hawk Kites

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

732 ms

Page Rendered

318 ms

kittyhawk.com screenshot

About Website

Visit kittyhawk.com now to see the best up-to-date Kitty Hawk content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kittyhawk.com

Kitty Hawk Kites has a great selection of kites and kiteboarding gear, and offers hang gliding lessons, kayak tours, and kiteboarding lessons to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kittyhawk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

kittyhawk.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,480 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kittyhawk.com

67 ms

www.kittyhawk.com

104 ms

autoptimize_f6f798e63aae357331f7a8f83e1be452.css

30 ms

autoptimize_6a29f43427ed4fa16a8621e1659639bc.css

87 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Kittyhawk.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) belongs to the original domain Kittyhawk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 882.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Kittyhawk.com main page is 5.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 43.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 177.6 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Kitty Hawk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 344.5 kB

  • Original 542.7 kB
  • After minification 542.6 kB
  • After compression 198.2 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 344.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 317.3 kB

  • Original 383.3 kB
  • After minification 382.6 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Kittyhawk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (28%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kitty Hawk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kittyhawk.com accessibility score

87

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 have valid values

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

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

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

kittyhawk.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kittyhawk.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Kittyhawk.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 Kittyhawk.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 description is not detected on the main page of Kitty Hawk. 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: