Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

tatravelcenters.com

TravelCenters of America

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

tatravelcenters.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tatravelcenters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 58 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tatravelcenters.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.21

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tatravelcenters.com

58 ms

www.ta-petro.com

85 ms

9121f943-7737-4228-8003-42273d60082a.css

60 ms

css

488 ms

toastr.less

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tatravelcenters.com, 71% (22 requests) were made to Ta-petro.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) relates to the external source Ta-petro.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

651.0 kB

After Optimization

459.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Tatravelcenters.com main page is 651.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 386.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 9.7 kB, which is 31% 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 24.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 386.4 kB
  • After minification 383.9 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. Ta Travel Centers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 148.6 kB

  • Original 215.8 kB
  • After minification 207.3 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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 148.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Tatravelcenters.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ta Travel Centers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tatravelcenters.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

tatravelcenters.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

tatravelcenters.com SEO score

81

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ta Travel Centers. 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: