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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

sandcastlecentral.com

Sand Castle Central - Sand Sculpture Tips, Tricks and Pics

Page Load Speed

532 ms in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

333 ms

Page Rendered

102 ms

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About Website

Visit sandcastlecentral.com now to see the best up-to-date Sand Castle Central content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sandcastlecentral.com

Sand Castle Central is your beach fun headquarters. Photos, tips, and an updated sand sculpture contest schedule as well as lots of links to related pages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sandcastlecentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 435 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sandcastlecentral.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sandcastlecentral.com

97 ms

agl-styles.css

45 ms

badge_code_v2.gne

4 ms

badge_code_v2.gne

55 ms

page.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Sandcastlecentral.com, 18% (7 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Flickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (127 ms) belongs to the original domain Sandcastlecentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

145.0 kB

After Optimization

140.5 kB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sandcastlecentral.com main page is 145.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 106.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 104.5 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. Sand Castle Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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

-87%

Potential reduce by 995 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 616 B
  • After compression 143 B

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. Sandcastlecentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 995 B or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (15%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sand Castle Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sandcastlecentral.com

sandcastlecentral.com

97 ms

agl-styles.css

agl-styles.css

45 ms

badge_code_v2.gne

badge_code_v2.gne

4 ms

badge_code_v2.gne

badge_code_v2.gne

55 ms

page.js

page.js

13 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

page.js

page.js

33 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

26 ms

sandisle336b.jpg

sandisle336b.jpg

91 ms

buildw.gif

buildw.gif

39 ms

tips.gif

tips.gif

43 ms

lessons.gif

lessons.gif

45 ms

tools.gif

tools.gif

46 ms

masters.gif

masters.gif

49 ms

sboxvertban.gif

sboxvertban.gif

76 ms

willyspheresetpn.jpg

willyspheresetpn.jpg

127 ms

dig.gif

dig.gif

68 ms

contests.gif

contests.gif

70 ms

books.gif

books.gif

73 ms

resources.gif

resources.gif

91 ms

feet.gif

feet.gif

92 ms

share_save_171_16.png

share_save_171_16.png

13 ms

share_save_171_16.png

share_save_171_16.png

21 ms

sm.25.html

sm.25.html

17 ms

eso.D0Uc7kY6.js

eso.D0Uc7kY6.js

10 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

eso.D0Uc7kY6.js

eso.D0Uc7kY6.js

27 ms

tips_over.gif

tips_over.gif

25 ms

lessons_over.gif

lessons_over.gif

24 ms

tools_over.gif

tools_over.gif

23 ms

contests_over.gif

contests_over.gif

22 ms

books_over.gif

books_over.gif

20 ms

resources_over.gif

resources_over.gif

23 ms

tips2.gif

tips2.gif

40 ms

tools2.gif

tools2.gif

44 ms

cntst2.gif

cntst2.gif

45 ms

pics2.gif

pics2.gif

46 ms

sclptrs2.gif

sclptrs2.gif

45 ms

news2.gif

news2.gif

46 ms

schome2.gif

schome2.gif

58 ms

Accessibility Review

sandcastlecentral.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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>).

High

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

Best Practices

sandcastlecentral.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sandcastlecentral.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sandcastlecentral.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sandcastlecentral.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sand Castle Central. 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: