Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

visitcolombo.com

Colombo City Guide | Visit Colombo

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

597 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

visitcolombo.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitcolombo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 597 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Visitcolombo.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

visitcolombo.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitcolombo.com

597 ms

style.css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

197 ms

jquery.min.js

231 ms

bootstrap.min.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Visitcolombo.com, 21% (30 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 7% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Visitcolombo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 429.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Visitcolombo.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. 75% 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 91.4 kB
  • After minification 82.7 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 77.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Visit Colombo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 126.4 kB

  • Original 202.1 kB
  • After minification 190.8 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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 126.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 149.9 kB

  • Original 179.4 kB
  • After minification 175.2 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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. Visitcolombo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (31%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Colombo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

visitcolombo.com accessibility score

57

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

visitcolombo.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

visitcolombo.com SEO score

82

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 Visitcolombo.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 Visitcolombo.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 Visit Colombo. 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: