Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thesailingchannel.tv

Sailing Videos - Sailing Documentaries and How-to Sail Videos

Page Load Speed

15.7 sec in total

First Response

4.6 sec

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesailingchannel.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 4.6 sec and then it took 11.1 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

thesailingchannel.tv performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value31,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value82.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesailingchannel.tv

4616 ms

js

68 ms

feedblitz-widget.css

272 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

269 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 224 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Thesailingchannel.tv, 39% (87 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 8% (17 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesailingchannel.tv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (16%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Thesailingchannel.tv main page is 8.1 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 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1000.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 119.6 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 1000.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 97 B

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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 Sailing Channel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 211.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 211.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 115.0 kB

  • Original 365.7 kB
  • After minification 365.6 kB
  • After compression 250.7 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. Thesailingchannel.tv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.0 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 116 (53%)

Requests Now

217

After Optimization

101

The browser has sent 217 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sailing Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 88 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thesailingchannel.tv accessibility score

86

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thesailingchannel.tv best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thesailingchannel.tv SEO score

90

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

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 Thesailingchannel.tv 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 Thesailingchannel.tv 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 Sailing Channel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: