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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

northshoreexplorermn.com

North Shore Explorer - Minnesota's North Shore of Lake SuperiorNorth Shore Explorer MN

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to northshoreexplorermn.com homepage info - get ready to check North Shore Explorer MN best content right away, or after learning these important things about northshoreexplorermn.com

Explore Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior. Guides, things to do, arts & culture, and more. Publisher of the North Shore Explorer guide

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northshoreexplorermn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northshoreexplorermn.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northshoreexplorermn.com

2049 ms

style.css

229 ms

shareaholic.js

43 ms

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249 ms

style.min.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Northshoreexplorermn.com, 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Northshoreexplorermn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (8%)

Content Size

16.6 MB

After Optimization

15.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northshoreexplorermn.com main page is 16.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 116.6 kB
  • After minification 77.4 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 39.2 kB, which is 34% 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 99.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 15.8 MB
  • After minification 14.6 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. North Shore Explorer MN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 616.7 kB
  • After minification 616.5 kB
  • After compression 590.9 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 127.0 kB
  • After minification 124.0 kB
  • After compression 122.6 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. Northshoreexplorermn.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (80%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Shore Explorer MN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

northshoreexplorermn.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Best Practices

northshoreexplorermn.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northshoreexplorermn.com SEO score

93

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

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 Northshoreexplorermn.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 Northshoreexplorermn.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of North Shore Explorer MN. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: