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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

surfer.guide

Europe's surfing beach guide with reviews, maps and photographs

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

502 ms

Resources Loaded

945 ms

Page Rendered

143 ms

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About Website

Visit surfer.guide now to see the best up-to-date Surfer content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about surfer.guide

Guide to surfing the coastlines of Europe including detailed beach characteristics, maps, photographs and reviews by local surfers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Surfer.guide page load time and found that the first response time was 502 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

surfer.guide performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

surfer.guide

502 ms

bw.css

165 ms

adsbygoogle.js

39 ms

blank.gif

163 ms

surfer.guide.png

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Surfer.guide, 5% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) belongs to the original domain Surfer.guide.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.1 kB (22%)

Content Size

95.1 kB

After Optimization

74.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Surfer.guide main page is 95.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 65.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 24.1 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.4 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Surfer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 65.7 kB
  • After compression 65.7 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 675 B
  • After minification 675 B
  • After compression 591 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. Surfer.guide needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Surfer. 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

surfer.guide

surfer.guide

502 ms

bw.css

bw.css

165 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

39 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

163 ms

surfer.guide.png

surfer.guide.png

246 ms

line1.gif

line1.gif

84 ms

t_search.gif

t_search.gif

83 ms

t_find.gif

t_find.gif

85 ms

t_photos.gif

t_photos.gif

142 ms

chiclana02.gif

chiclana02.gif

166 ms

scheveningen06.gif

scheveningen06.gif

165 ms

scheveningen05.gif

scheveningen05.gif

183 ms

scheveningen04.gif

scheveningen04.gif

166 ms

scheveningen03.gif

scheveningen03.gif

183 ms

scheveningen02.gif

scheveningen02.gif

226 ms

zahara01.gif

zahara01.gif

246 ms

whitsands10.gif

whitsands10.gif

249 ms

whitsands09.gif

whitsands09.gif

249 ms

m_photos.gif

m_photos.gif

263 ms

t_reviews.gif

t_reviews.gif

264 ms

m_reviews.gif

m_reviews.gif

308 ms

cslogo.gif

cslogo.gif

325 ms

Accessibility Review

surfer.guide accessibility score

67

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

surfer.guide best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

surfer.guide SEO score

58

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

surfer.guide

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