Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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The Travel Council is bringing your city and business to life and bringing customers right to your door. View Our Magazines and Videos On were to Dine, Sleep and Play.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetravelcouncil.com page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetravelcouncil.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thetravelcouncil.com

240 ms

analytics.js

7 ms

jquery.min.js

199 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

137 ms

jquery.scrolly.min.js

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Thetravelcouncil.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Louisianatravelcouncil.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 638.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thetravelcouncil.com main page is 5.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 2.9 kB, which is 12% 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 18.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Thetravelcouncil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 437.0 kB

  • Original 641.8 kB
  • After minification 626.7 kB
  • After compression 204.7 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 437.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 141.4 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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. Thetravelcouncil.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (37%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thetravelcouncil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thetravelcouncil.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thetravelcouncil.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thetravelcouncil.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 description is not detected on the main page of Thetravelcouncil. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: