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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

rockclimberlife.com

Rock Climbing blog, training, trip reports, technical tips, and gear reviews for climbers

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

664 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rockclimberlife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 5.9 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

rockclimberlife.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rockclimberlife.com

345 ms

960.css

119 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

122 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

thickbox.css

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Rockclimberlife.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Woopra.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rockclimberlife.com main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 44.4 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 50.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. 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 44.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Rock Climberlife images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 175.6 kB
  • After minification 175.6 kB
  • After compression 166.9 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

-58%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 111.1 kB
  • After minification 111.1 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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. Rockclimberlife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (47%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rock Climberlife. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rockclimberlife.com

rockclimberlife.com

345 ms

960.css

960.css

119 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

122 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

121 ms

styles.css

styles.css

320 ms

social_widget.css

social_widget.css

121 ms

podpress.css

podpress.css

160 ms

1pixelout_audio-player.js

1pixelout_audio-player.js

180 ms

podpress.js

podpress.js

187 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

183 ms

topsy.js

topsy.js

37 ms

form.css

form.css

430 ms

js

js

39 ms

prettyphoto.css

prettyphoto.css

184 ms

css

css

16 ms

style.css

style.css

308 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

245 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

247 ms

print.css

print.css

248 ms

animate.css

animate.css

314 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

157 ms

ga.js

ga.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

w.js

w.js

43 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

40 ms

fabric_plaid.png

fabric_plaid.png

64 ms

RCLtext1.png

RCLtext1.png

64 ms

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Outdoor-Research-Sun-Shirt-Review-1192x600.jpg

351 ms

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237 ms

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467 ms

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Outdoor-Research-Tech-Tee-Shirt-Review-Thumbnail-1192x600.jpg

353 ms

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297 ms

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357 ms

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299 ms

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Outdoor-Research-Transition-Hoody-Review-1192x600.jpg

417 ms

Outdoor-Research-Helium-II-Review-1192x600.jpg

Outdoor-Research-Helium-II-Review-1192x600.jpg

362 ms

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469 ms

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youtube.png

413 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

419 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

423 ms

instagram.png

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475 ms

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477 ms

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482 ms

rss.png

rss.png

484 ms

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527 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVQ.woff

9 ms

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13 ms

4408 ms

Accessibility Review

rockclimberlife.com accessibility score

81

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

rockclimberlife.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rockclimberlife.com SEO score

92

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 Rockclimberlife.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 Rockclimberlife.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

rockclimberlife.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rock Climberlife. 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: