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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

skippertips.com

Learn to Sail Sailing Tips You Need Beyond Sailing School!

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

294 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Visit skippertips.com now to see the best up-to-date Skipper Tips content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about skippertips.com

Learn to Sail Online! Discover the secrets to sailing across an ocean, tying marine knots, how to dock a boat like a pro, and hundreds of other little-known sailing tips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skippertips.com page load time and found that the first response time was 294 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skippertips.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.152

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.skippertips.com

294 ms

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

colorbox.css

71 ms

all.min.css

74 ms

mgstyle.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Skippertips.com, 20% (10 requests) were made to Cloud.membergate.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Forms.aweber.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (343 ms) belongs to the original domain Skippertips.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

662.0 kB

After Optimization

535.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skippertips.com main page is 662.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 287.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 112.6 kB
  • After minification 104.6 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 95.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 287.0 kB
  • After minification 265.4 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. Skipper Tips images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 123.1 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 115.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 139.3 kB
  • After minification 139.3 kB
  • After compression 137.8 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. Skippertips.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (54%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skipper Tips. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.skippertips.com

www.skippertips.com

294 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

71 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

74 ms

mgstyle.css

mgstyle.css

28 ms

style.css

style.css

22 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

102 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

102 ms

clumpcss.cfm

clumpcss.cfm

212 ms

common.js

common.js

18 ms

responsive.js

responsive.js

18 ms

tether.min.js

tether.min.js

65 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

66 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

63 ms

jquery.unveil.js

jquery.unveil.js

63 ms

tfpop.js

tfpop.js

131 ms

overlib.js

overlib.js

64 ms

styleswitcher.js

styleswitcher.js

147 ms

portallogo.png

portallogo.png

20 ms

pixel.png

pixel.png

11 ms

banner10.jpg

banner10.jpg

164 ms

seal.min.js

seal.min.js

139 ms

1568715925.js

1568715925.js

57 ms

881533525.js

881533525.js

94 ms

ga.js

ga.js

55 ms

portallogo.jpg

portallogo.jpg

144 ms

topnavback.jpg

topnavback.jpg

141 ms

cat39.jpg

cat39.jpg

141 ms

cat68.jpg

cat68.jpg

140 ms

cat66.jpg

cat66.jpg

132 ms

cat60.jpg

cat60.jpg

178 ms

transparentpixel.png

transparentpixel.png

262 ms

cat76.jpg

cat76.jpg

257 ms

cat72.jpg

cat72.jpg

236 ms

banner221.jpg

banner221.jpg

261 ms

styled_popovers_and_lightboxes.js

styled_popovers_and_lightboxes.js

37 ms

displays.htm

displays.htm

80 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

48 ms

11251a.jpg

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140 ms

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151 ms

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219 ms

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273 ms

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239 ms

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239 ms

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262 ms

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247 ms

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322 ms

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343 ms

displays.htm

displays.htm

31 ms

larger.css

larger.css

130 ms

11 ms

Accessibility Review

skippertips.com accessibility score

72

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

skippertips.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skippertips.com SEO score

71

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Skippertips.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 Skippertips.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

skippertips.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Skipper Tips. 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: