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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

roadsideamerica.com

Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions

Page Load Speed

725 ms in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

467 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

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Home Page for Roadside America, travel tools and guide to unusual attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and road trips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Roadsideamerica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 658 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

roadsideamerica.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

roadsideamerica.com

67 ms

www.roadsideamerica.com

23 ms

js

96 ms

roadside.home.css

9 ms

jquery.min.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Roadsideamerica.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (235 ms) belongs to the original domain Roadsideamerica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

447.4 kB

After Optimization

408.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Roadsideamerica.com main page is 447.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 303.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 27.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 84.8 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. Roadside America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 303.8 kB
  • After minification 303.8 kB
  • After compression 301.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 15.5 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. Roadsideamerica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (25%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roadside America. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

roadsideamerica.com

roadsideamerica.com

67 ms

www.roadsideamerica.com

www.roadsideamerica.com

23 ms

js

js

96 ms

roadside.home.css

roadside.home.css

9 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js

34 ms

roadside.js

roadside.js

24 ms

accountMgr.js

accountMgr.js

32 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

160 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

198 ms

css

css

46 ms

roadside_logo.png

roadside_logo.png

26 ms

nav-bg.gif

nav-bg.gif

8 ms

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roundup_muffler_21_160x117.jpg

72 ms

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roundup-moai_sow160.jpg

8 ms

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roundup_mother_21_160x117.jpg

72 ms

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roundup_smileywt_21_160x117.jpg

74 ms

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roundup_mysteryspots_21_160x117.jpg

110 ms

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mysights-160x100-202104.jpg

112 ms

ra-app-art-202104-160x100.jpg

ra-app-art-202104-160x100.jpg

112 ms

prez-app-art-202104-160x100.jpg

prez-app-art-202104-160x100.jpg

112 ms

random-destination-160x56.png

random-destination-160x56.png

115 ms

NVLVEpunkmus_thumb_320x180.jpg

NVLVEpunkmus_thumb_320x180.jpg

113 ms

Ask-an-Expert-TimOBrien-thumb-320x180.jpg

Ask-an-Expert-TimOBrien-thumb-320x180.jpg

113 ms

KSTOPtruck-thumb-320x180.jpg

KSTOPtruck-thumb-320x180.jpg

113 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

148 ms

share42.js

share42.js

235 ms

jquery.aw-showcase.min.js

jquery.aw-showcase.min.js

235 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

212 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

45 ms

Accessibility Review

roadsideamerica.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

roadsideamerica.com best practices score

67

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

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

roadsideamerica.com SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Roadsideamerica.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 Roadsideamerica.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 description is not detected on the main page of Roadside America. 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: