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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thelongweekend.com

The Long Weekend - A blog that inspires you to travel and eat no matter your budget, time constraints, work, or personal obligations.

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

832 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelongweekend.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 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

thelongweekend.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelongweekend.com

2268 ms

www.thelongweekend.com

539 ms

css

37 ms

2f283867aa.js

35 ms

style.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Thelongweekend.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelongweekend.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 755.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelongweekend.com main page is 8.7 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 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 59.7 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 52.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.8 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 Long Weekend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 297.3 kB

  • Original 410.7 kB
  • After minification 366.1 kB
  • After compression 113.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 297.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 293.4 kB

  • Original 349.6 kB
  • After minification 302.1 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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. Thelongweekend.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (55%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Long Weekend. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelongweekend.com

thelongweekend.com

2268 ms

www.thelongweekend.com

www.thelongweekend.com

539 ms

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37 ms

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35 ms

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149 ms

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204 ms

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203 ms

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202 ms

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276 ms

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359 ms

Accessibility Review

thelongweekend.com accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thelongweekend.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thelongweekend.com SEO score

77

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Thelongweekend.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 Thelongweekend.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

thelongweekend.com

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