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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

visit-twincities.com

Visit Twin Cities | Your Things to Do Tourism Guide in Minneapolis & St. Paul

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

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About Website

Visit visit-twincities.com now to see the best up-to-date Visit Twin Cities content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about visit-twincities.com

Visit Twin Cities is your tourism guide to everything Minneapolis, St. Paul & the suburbs have to offer in dining, shopping, entertainment & attractions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visit-twincities.com page load time and found that the first response time was 120 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

visit-twincities.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.369

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visit-twincities.com

120 ms

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127 ms

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96 ms

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89 ms

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109 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Visit-twincities.com, 13% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (645 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visit-twincities.com main page is 2.4 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. 80% 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 112.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Visit Twin Cities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 564.6 kB
  • After minification 564.6 kB
  • After compression 530.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 208.9 kB
  • After minification 208.9 kB
  • After compression 201.5 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. Visit-twincities.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (67%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Twin Cities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

visit-twincities.com accessibility score

83

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

visit-twincities.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

visit-twincities.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Visit-twincities.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 Visit-twincities.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

visit-twincities.com

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