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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thehikinglife.com

The Hiking Life - Tips, Tales & Trip Reports

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

596 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

718 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Hiking Life content for Netherlands. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thehikinglife.com

Photos and trekking notes from more than 200 of the world's great hikes, along with "how-to" articles on ultralight backpacking and improving your wilderness skill set.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehikinglife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 596 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehikinglife.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehikinglife.com

596 ms

www.thehikinglife.com

1206 ms

colorbox-1.css

445 ms

style.min.css

844 ms

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668 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Thehikinglife.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehikinglife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehikinglife.com main page is 2.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 151.9 kB

  • Original 178.8 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 151.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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 Hiking Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 93.8 kB
  • After compression 72.6 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 21.2 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 48.5 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. Thehikinglife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (42%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hiking Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thehikinglife.com

thehikinglife.com

596 ms

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1206 ms

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445 ms

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Accessibility Review

thehikinglife.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

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

thehikinglife.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thehikinglife.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thehikinglife.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 Thehikinglife.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 Hiking Life. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: