Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thehotelcalifornian.com

Hotel Californian | The Best Hotel In Santa Barbara

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Hotel Californian continues to redefine luxury in the American Riviera. Stay with us andsee why we are widely considered the best hotel in Santa Barbara.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehotelcalifornian.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehotelcalifornian.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehotelcalifornian.com

170 ms

www.thehotelcalifornian.com

281 ms

www.hotelcalifornian.com

412 ms

css2

33 ms

combined-home.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 262 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thehotelcalifornian.com, 85% (224 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (26 requests) were made to Hotelcalifornian.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (50%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thehotelcalifornian.com main page is 4.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 323.2 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 1.7 MB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 248.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, The Hotel Californian needs image optimization as it can save up to 248.1 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

-73%

Potential reduce by 397.1 kB

  • Original 547.2 kB
  • After minification 542.4 kB
  • After compression 150.1 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 397.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 668 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 786 B
  • After compression 368 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. Thehotelcalifornian.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 668 B or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (32%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hotel Californian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehotelcalifornian.com accessibility score

91

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.

Best Practices

thehotelcalifornian.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

thehotelcalifornian.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Thehotelcalifornian.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 Thehotelcalifornian.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

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