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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

sturgischick.com

motorcycle travel, Sturgis Chick, travel blog of a woman on a motorcycle adventure ride Home

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sturgis Chick content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sturgischick.com

Sturgis Chick is the travel blog of a forty-something business executive who decided to quit her job and travel by motorcycle to find adventure and more to life

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sturgischick.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 6.6 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

sturgischick.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sturgischick.com

143 ms

user.js

91 ms

jquery.js

113 ms

simplegallery.js

89 ms

photo_album.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Sturgischick.com, 3% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Counter.superstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) relates to the external source Stats.netsolads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 368.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

958.0 kB

After Optimization

589.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sturgischick.com main page is 958.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 896.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 14.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 341.5 kB

  • Original 896.9 kB
  • After minification 555.3 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. Obviously, Sturgis Chick needs image optimization as it can save up to 341.5 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 10.1 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Sturgischick.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sturgis Chick. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sturgischick.com

sturgischick.com

143 ms

user.js

user.js

91 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

113 ms

simplegallery.js

simplegallery.js

89 ms

photo_album.js

photo_album.js

85 ms

PrebuiltBlockStructure.css

PrebuiltBlockStructure.css

119 ms

template.css

template.css

132 ms

layout1.css

layout1.css

124 ms

website.css

website.css

140 ms

icwebsiteelement.css

icwebsiteelement.css

156 ms

PrebuiltBlockStructure.css

PrebuiltBlockStructure.css

213 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

14 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

53 ms

facebook-small-icon.png

facebook-small-icon.png

64 ms

twitter-small-icon.png

twitter-small-icon.png

79 ms

linkedin-small-icon.png

linkedin-small-icon.png

226 ms

c.count

c.count

48 ms

jsconfig

jsconfig

6060 ms

g_out_bg.jpg

g_out_bg.jpg

49 ms

g_h_bg.jpg

g_h_bg.jpg

140 ms

g_h_wrap.png

g_h_wrap.png

59 ms

DSC00997_bgEditor_1366566132692.JPG

DSC00997_bgEditor_1366566132692.JPG

172 ms

g_hm.png

g_hm.png

137 ms

g_menu_up.png

g_menu_up.png

406 ms

g_menu_bott.png

g_menu_bott.png

165 ms

ch_nav_bg.png

ch_nav_bg.png

168 ms

ch_nav_sep.png

ch_nav_sep.png

191 ms

150_July_2012_279.JPG

150_July_2012_279.JPG

396 ms

g_f.png

g_f.png

202 ms

print.css

print.css

31 ms

Accessibility Review

sturgischick.com accessibility score

56

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sturgischick.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sturgischick.com SEO score

69

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sturgischick.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 Sturgischick.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

sturgischick.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sturgis Chick. 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: