Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

oars.com

Whitewater Rafting Trips and Adventure Vacations - OARS

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

721 ms

oars.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing OARS content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about oars.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oars.com page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oars.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,980 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.oars.com

151 ms

ofu0wku.js

128 ms

dashicons.min.css

17 ms

wunderground.css

14 ms

bootstrap.min.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Oars.com, 49% (88 requests) were made to Content.oars.netdna-cdn.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (943 ms) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Oars.com main page is 5.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 183.4 kB

  • Original 211.1 kB
  • After minification 187.4 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 23.7 kB, which is 11% 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 183.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. OARS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 469.6 kB

  • Original 697.8 kB
  • After minification 649.9 kB
  • After compression 228.2 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 469.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 819.3 kB

  • Original 959.9 kB
  • After minification 830.2 kB
  • After compression 140.5 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. Oars.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 819.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (64%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OARS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

oars.com accessibility score

69

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 match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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>).

Best Practices

oars.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

SEO Factors

oars.com SEO score

76

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Oars.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 Oars.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 data is detected on the main page of OARS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: