Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 35

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

mountaintrader.com

The Mountain Trader (Montana) - Thursday, August 10, 2023 - Serving Northwest Montana Since 1972

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

mountaintrader.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mountaintrader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mountaintrader.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mountaintrader.com

103 ms

www.mountaintrader.com

49 ms

Default.asp

396 ms

style.css

15 ms

submit-ad-ani.gif

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mountaintrader.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustwave.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (511 ms) belongs to the original domain Mountaintrader.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Mountaintrader.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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Mountain Trader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 382 B

  • Original 800 B
  • After minification 776 B
  • After compression 418 B

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 382 B or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 574 B

  • Original 804 B
  • After minification 621 B
  • After compression 230 B

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. Mountaintrader.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 574 B or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mountain Trader. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

mountaintrader.com accessibility score

35

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

mountaintrader.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mountaintrader.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mountaintrader.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Mountaintrader.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mountain Trader. 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: