Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mtnguide.com

American Alpine Institute | Mountaineering School, Mountain & Ski Guides

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

332 ms

mtnguide.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Mtnguide content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mtnguide.com

Mountaineering, rock climbing, and ski instruction; high-altitude expeditions; and guided summit climbs throughout North America and the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mtnguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mtnguide.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mtnguide.com

164 ms

www.alpineinstitute.com

760 ms

styles.css

49 ms

email-decode.min.js

156 ms

jquery.js

312 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mtnguide.com, 94% (32 requests) were made to Alpineinstitute.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Alpineinstitute.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

996.3 kB

After Optimization

736.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Mtnguide.com main page is 996.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 726.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 20.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 726.7 kB
  • After minification 672.5 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. Mtnguide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 184.5 kB

  • Original 232.0 kB
  • After minification 138.4 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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 184.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 64 B

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Mtnguide.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (34%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mtnguide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mtnguide.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mtnguide.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

mtnguide.com SEO score

86

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 Mtnguide.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 Mtnguide.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 Mtnguide. 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: