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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thebrightsideoftheroad.com

Driving through Canada, Mexico, Central and South America

Page Load Speed

646 ms in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

353 ms

Page Rendered

185 ms

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About Website

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We are an Irish couple living in Chicago who just quit our jobs and bought a van. We are driving through all Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. Follow our travels through our website. Lots of ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebrightsideoftheroad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 538 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebrightsideoftheroad.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebrightsideoftheroad.com

108 ms

ic_globals_published.js

33 ms

user.js

51 ms

photoalbum.js

68 ms

template.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Thebrightsideoftheroad.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Counter.superstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (108 ms) belongs to the original domain Thebrightsideoftheroad.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.5 kB (38%)

Content Size

90.4 kB

After Optimization

55.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebrightsideoftheroad.com main page is 90.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 39.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 15.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 35.3 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, Thebrightsideoftheroad needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. Thebrightsideoftheroad.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (24%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thebrightsideoftheroad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebrightsideoftheroad.com

thebrightsideoftheroad.com

108 ms

ic_globals_published.js

ic_globals_published.js

33 ms

user.js

user.js

51 ms

photoalbum.js

photoalbum.js

68 ms

template.css

template.css

44 ms

website.css

website.css

46 ms

1.css

1.css

41 ms

1custom.css

1custom.css

63 ms

icwebsiteelement.css

icwebsiteelement.css

64 ms

c.count

c.count

78 ms

left-side-shadow.png

left-side-shadow.png

25 ms

nav-bar-overlay.png

nav-bar-overlay.png

31 ms

nav-background.png

nav-background.png

29 ms

header_colombia.jpg

header_colombia.jpg

50 ms

400_IMG_8721.JPG

400_IMG_8721.JPG

27 ms

593_van_dancin.gif

593_van_dancin.gif

108 ms

mb_6.jpg

mb_6.jpg

48 ms

right-side-shadow.png

right-side-shadow.png

49 ms

Accessibility Review

thebrightsideoftheroad.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thebrightsideoftheroad.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

thebrightsideoftheroad.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebrightsideoftheroad.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 Thebrightsideoftheroad.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

thebrightsideoftheroad.com

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