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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thebeach.vi

The Beach, A Virgin Islands Travel Site (USVI and BVI)

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

110 ms

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About Website

Visit thebeach.vi now to see the best up-to-date The Beach content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thebeach.vi

Virgin Islands (USVI) Travel, Vacation and Hotel Guide for St. John, St. Thomas and St. Croix. Plan your USVI Vacation Today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebeach.vi page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 1.5 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

thebeach.vi performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebeach.vi

107 ms

usvi.css

18 ms

adsbygoogle.js

121 ms

f5eeeddc214ed8ef15e48bc80e1f53b0da4f0574.png

132 ms

plusone.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thebeach.vi, 44% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Developers.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

309.6 kB

After Optimization

249.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebeach.vi main page is 309.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 282.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. 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 18.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 282.1 kB
  • After minification 282.1 kB
  • After compression 241.5 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 40.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 573 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. Thebeach.vi needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (75%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

3

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Beach. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebeach.vi

thebeach.vi

107 ms

usvi.css

usvi.css

18 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

121 ms

f5eeeddc214ed8ef15e48bc80e1f53b0da4f0574.png

f5eeeddc214ed8ef15e48bc80e1f53b0da4f0574.png

132 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

21 ms

platform.js

platform.js

37 ms

all.js

all.js

18 ms

all.js

all.js

16 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

33 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

49 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

47 ms

follow

follow

45 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

62 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

251 ms

3192416480-postmessagerelay.js

3192416480-postmessagerelay.js

17 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

5 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

4 ms

developers.google.com

developers.google.com

1029 ms

Accessibility Review

thebeach.vi accessibility score

91

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.

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

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

thebeach.vi 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thebeach.vi SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thebeach.vi 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 Thebeach.vi 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

thebeach.vi

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