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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thedistrict.com

Washington DC Tourist Information – Hotel and travel tips for visiting Washington, DC

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Thedistrict content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thedistrict.com

Washington, DC tourist information, covering all of the Washington DC monuments, memorials, museums, attractions, and hotels. The District is your free online visitor's guide to the nations capit...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedistrict.com page load time and found that the first response time was 540 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedistrict.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.37

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thedistrict.com

540 ms

style.css

64 ms

style.min.css

126 ms

dashicons.min.css

245 ms

css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Thedistrict.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedistrict.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedistrict.com main page is 3.5 MB. 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 46.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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. Thedistrict images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 154.0 kB

  • Original 599.3 kB
  • After minification 599.3 kB
  • After compression 445.3 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 154.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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. Thedistrict.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (43%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thedistrict. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thedistrict.com

www.thedistrict.com

540 ms

style.css

style.css

64 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

126 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

245 ms

css

css

40 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

249 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

186 ms

responsive-menu.js

responsive-menu.js

184 ms

js

js

61 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

166 ms

cherryblossoms.png

cherryblossoms.png

486 ms

the-district-logo.png

the-district-logo.png

107 ms

washington-dc-photo-montage.jpg

washington-dc-photo-montage.jpg

245 ms

fourthofjuly_washingtondc-150x150.jpg

fourthofjuly_washingtondc-150x150.jpg

107 ms

mountvernon2-150x150.jpg

mountvernon2-150x150.jpg

107 ms

vietnamveteransmemorial1-150x150.jpg

vietnamveteransmemorial1-150x150.jpg

106 ms

UHC-Exterior-Jim-Preston-National-Air-and-Space-Museum-150x150.jpg

UHC-Exterior-Jim-Preston-National-Air-and-Space-Museum-150x150.jpg

158 ms

bestratesguaranteed.gif

bestratesguaranteed.gif

159 ms

callourdctravelexperts.jpg

callourdctravelexperts.jpg

216 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

157 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

217 ms

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1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVvaorCIPrc.woff

64 ms

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1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVs9pbCIPrc.woff

82 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

249 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

28 ms

ads

ads

397 ms

ads

ads

514 ms

ads

ads

505 ms

load_preloaded_resource.js

load_preloaded_resource.js

37 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

139 ms

s

s

26 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

32 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

33 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

25 ms

5f7468413707c3abfd197d65a482477f.js

5f7468413707c3abfd197d65a482477f.js

137 ms

icon.png

icon.png

31 ms

css

css

53 ms

sodar

sodar

72 ms

activeview

activeview

76 ms

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18 ms

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8 ms

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16 ms

sodar2.js

sodar2.js

6 ms

runner.html

runner.html

6 ms

aframe

aframe

21 ms

Accessibility Review

thedistrict.com accessibility score

85

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

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

thedistrict.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thedistrict.com SEO score

93

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

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

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 Thedistrict.com 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 Thedistrict.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

thedistrict.com

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