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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

visitwatfordcity.com

Watford City, ND | McKenzie County Tourism Visitor Center and Tourist Information

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

331 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

visitwatfordcity.com screenshot

About Website

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McKenzie County is the perfect destination from which to launch your vacation experience. Whether it’s the rugged adventure of exploring a backcountry trail, a quest for the longest golf drive, or dis...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitwatfordcity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 331 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitwatfordcity.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value74.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitwatfordcity.com

331 ms

www.visitwatfordcity.com

644 ms

uok8myi.css

75 ms

all.min.css

160 ms

bootstrap.min.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Visitwatfordcity.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Visitwatfordcity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 962.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

21.5 MB

After Optimization

20.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visitwatfordcity.com main page is 21.5 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 21.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 125.3 kB
  • After minification 96.5 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 28.8 kB, which is 23% 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 112.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 824.5 kB

  • Original 21.3 MB
  • After minification 20.4 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 Watford City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 78.6 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 43.7 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. Visitwatfordcity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (17%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visit Watford City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

visitwatfordcity.com

visitwatfordcity.com

331 ms

www.visitwatfordcity.com

www.visitwatfordcity.com

644 ms

uok8myi.css

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75 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

160 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

256 ms

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301 ms

Site.min.css

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328 ms

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js

76 ms

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33 ms

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412 ms

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252 ms

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25 ms

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30 ms

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12 ms

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899 ms

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117 ms

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111 ms

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182 ms

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192 ms

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111 ms

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196 ms

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489 ms

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644 ms

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665 ms

RRCGreatHall2.jpg

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701 ms

CivicCenter.jpg

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709 ms

ComfortInn.jpg

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864 ms

EagleClub.jpg

EagleClub.jpg

720 ms

GolfCourseGreen.jpg

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741 ms

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811 ms

OutlawsBallroom.jpg

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893 ms

Roosevelt.jpg

Roosevelt.jpg

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Teddys.jpg

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1009 ms

TheWatford.jpg

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1018 ms

TobaccoGardens.jpg

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1088 ms

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1091 ms

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1060 ms

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65 ms

pixel

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17 ms

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14 ms

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112 ms

AdX

AdX

42 ms

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78 ms

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1010 ms

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1009 ms

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1004 ms

MCT_App-Logo_Apple.png

MCT_App-Logo_Apple.png

1045 ms

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104 ms

MCT_App-Logo_Google.png

MCT_App-Logo_Google.png

764 ms

Buffalo.jpg

Buffalo.jpg

759 ms

Accessibility Review

visitwatfordcity.com accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

visitwatfordcity.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

visitwatfordcity.com SEO score

84

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

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 Visitwatfordcity.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 Visitwatfordcity.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

visitwatfordcity.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Visit Watford City. 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: