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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thelastbestplates.com

The Last Best Plates - Montana Food, Travel, & Culture Blog

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

488 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thelastbestplates.com homepage info - get ready to check The Last Best Plates best content right away, or after learning these important things about thelastbestplates.com

The Last Best Plates is a food, travel, and culture blog that shares all of the delicious stories, places, and people of Montana…one plate at a time.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelastbestplates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 488 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelastbestplates.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelastbestplates.com

488 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

59 ms

style.min.css

111 ms

styles.css

111 ms

easy-author-image.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Thelastbestplates.com, 1% (1 request) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (552 ms) belongs to the original domain Thelastbestplates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 814.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

10.3 MB

After Optimization

9.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelastbestplates.com main page is 10.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 10.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 70.7 kB

  • Original 80.9 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.4 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 70.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 737.9 kB

  • Original 10.1 MB
  • After minification 9.4 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 Last Best Plates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 95.8 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 94.2 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 51.1 kB
  • After minification 51.1 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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. Thelastbestplates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (21%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Last Best Plates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelastbestplates.com

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488 ms

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59 ms

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110 ms

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Accessibility Review

thelastbestplates.com accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thelastbestplates.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

SEO Factors

thelastbestplates.com SEO score

83

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

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

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 Thelastbestplates.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 Thelastbestplates.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

thelastbestplates.com

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