Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

visitalton.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

426 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitalton.com page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 3.6 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

visitalton.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,110 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitalton.com

55 ms

917 ms

webfontloader.js

72 ms

widget.js

664 ms

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Visitalton.com, 32% (27 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 18% (15 requests) were made to Riversandroutes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (917 ms) relates to the external source Riversandroutes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 776.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Visitalton.com main page is 3.3 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 194.7 kB

  • Original 237.4 kB
  • After minification 209.8 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.6 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 194.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 539.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Visit Alton needs image optimization as it can save up to 539.1 kB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 62.1 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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. Visitalton.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (58%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Alton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

visitalton.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

visitalton.com 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

visitalton.com SEO score

93

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

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