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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thelightsofchristmas.com

The Lights of Christmas Event - Largest Christmas light display in Seattle

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

838 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Lights Of Christmas content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thelightsofchristmas.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelightsofchristmas.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelightsofchristmas.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelightsofchristmas.com

143 ms

www.thelightsofchristmas.com

338 ms

style.min.css

76 ms

all.min.css

160 ms

69854-layout.css

205 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Thelightsofchristmas.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) belongs to the original domain Thelightsofchristmas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (43%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelightsofchristmas.com main page is 4.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 53.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 3.7 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. Obviously, The Lights Of Christmas needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 108.0 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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 36.9 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 124.3 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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. Thelightsofchristmas.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (61%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lights Of Christmas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelightsofchristmas.com

thelightsofchristmas.com

143 ms

www.thelightsofchristmas.com

www.thelightsofchristmas.com

338 ms

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76 ms

all.min.css

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160 ms

69854-layout.css

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205 ms

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209 ms

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226 ms

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228 ms

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228 ms

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239 ms

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272 ms

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animate.min.css

272 ms

css

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37 ms

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jquery.min.js

383 ms

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302 ms

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67 ms

css

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52 ms

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

301 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

jquery.waypoints.min.js

307 ms

69854-layout.js

69854-layout.js

339 ms

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337 ms

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375 ms

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

376 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

380 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

108 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

193 ms

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449 ms

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449 ms

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479 ms

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441 ms

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718 ms

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443 ms

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615 ms

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616 ms

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602 ms

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550 ms

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557 ms

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148 ms

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549 ms

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423 ms

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450 ms

Accessibility Review

thelightsofchristmas.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

thelightsofchristmas.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

thelightsofchristmas.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Thelightsofchristmas.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 Thelightsofchristmas.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 Lights Of Christmas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: