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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

southernexplorations.com

Latin America Tours & Adventure Cruises | Southern Explorations

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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About Website

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Explore Latin and South America with Southern Explorations in small group tours & cruises designed for adventure or luxury travel. Discover the Galapagos, Peru or even Antarctica with our award-winnin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernexplorations.com page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southernexplorations.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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138 ms

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873 ms

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167 ms

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167 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Southernexplorations.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (873 ms) belongs to the original domain Southernexplorations.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southernexplorations.com main page is 3.6 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. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 141.1 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 160.1 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 141.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Southern Explorations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 233.4 kB
  • After minification 233.4 kB
  • After compression 174.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 58.4 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 36.8 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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. Southernexplorations.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (33%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

81

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Explorations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

southernexplorations.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southernexplorations.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

southernexplorations.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 Southernexplorations.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 Southernexplorations.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

southernexplorations.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southern Explorations. 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: