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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

theessentialdestination.com

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Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

345 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to The Essential Destination, the website designed to inspire your next travel destination. Explore destination guides, travel photography and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theessentialdestination.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theessentialdestination.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theessentialdestination.com

1219 ms

analytics.js

36 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

51 ms

flick.css

47 ms

www.theessentialdestination.com

610 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Theessentialdestination.com, 13% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Theessentialdestination.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theessentialdestination.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 62.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. The Essential Destination images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 388.3 kB
  • After minification 387.9 kB
  • After compression 378.4 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Theessentialdestination.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (62%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Essential Destination. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theessentialdestination.com

www.theessentialdestination.com

1219 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

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51 ms

flick.css

flick.css

47 ms

www.theessentialdestination.com

www.theessentialdestination.com

610 ms

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36 ms

style.css

style.css

48 ms

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9 ms

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21 ms

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46 ms

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48 ms

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100 ms

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74 ms

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57 ms

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59 ms

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57 ms

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97 ms

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69 ms

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105 ms

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78 ms

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84 ms

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100 ms

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86 ms

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111 ms

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93 ms

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46 ms

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109 ms

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103 ms

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107 ms

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108 ms

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112 ms

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114 ms

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114 ms

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121 ms

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116 ms

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135 ms

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Accessibility Review

theessentialdestination.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theessentialdestination.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theessentialdestination.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Essential Destination. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: