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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

shoestringbackpacking.com

Backpacking Outdoors Blog

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

584 ms

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About Website

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Traveller chat and advice on backpacking around the world for less. The scoop on bargain flights, cheap sleeps, jobs abroad and everything in between.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shoestringbackpacking.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shoestringbackpacking.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.845

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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64 ms

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224 ms

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36 ms

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12 ms

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8 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Shoestringbackpacking.com, 18% (25 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

794.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shoestringbackpacking.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 663.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 53.5 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 91.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 502.4 kB
  • After minification 481.8 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. Shoestring Backpacking images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 409.3 kB

  • Original 663.3 kB
  • After minification 663.0 kB
  • After compression 254.0 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 409.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 46.7 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Shoestringbackpacking.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (56%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shoestring Backpacking. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

shoestringbackpacking.com accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

shoestringbackpacking.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

shoestringbackpacking.com SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shoestringbackpacking.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 Shoestringbackpacking.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

shoestringbackpacking.com

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