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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

whales.com

Whale Watching | Seattle | Bellingham | Anacortes | San Juan Cruises

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

615 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Whale S content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about whales.com

Welcome to San Juan Cruises There are many ways to get on the water with us - whale watching tours, trips to Friday Harbor, crab dinner cruises on Chuckanut Bay or in the Swinomish Channel, beer & win...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whales.com page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whales.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whales.com

224 ms

www.whales.com

1153 ms

style.min.css

366 ms

shortcodes.css

40 ms

nivo-lightbox.min.css

347 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Whales.com, 16% (14 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Whales.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whales.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 78.7 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 20.1 kB, which is 22% 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 78.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Whale S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 209.0 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 54.8 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. Whales.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (66%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whale S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

whales.com

whales.com

224 ms

www.whales.com

www.whales.com

1153 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

366 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

40 ms

nivo-lightbox.min.css

nivo-lightbox.min.css

347 ms

default.css

default.css

375 ms

css

css

156 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

38 ms

style.css

style.css

111 ms

css

css

191 ms

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css2

190 ms

styles_custom.css

styles_custom.css

596 ms

styles_responsive.css

styles_responsive.css

515 ms

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133 ms

wds_effects.css

wds_effects.css

54 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

64 ms

wds_frontend.css

wds_frontend.css

72 ms

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

80 ms

functions.js

functions.js

86 ms

jquery.mobile.js

jquery.mobile.js

95 ms

wds_frontend.js

wds_frontend.js

111 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

501 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

rocket-loader.min.js

209 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

93 ms

home_2021_CTA.jpg

home_2021_CTA.jpg

40 ms

embed

embed

380 ms

cruise_whales_2020.jpg

cruise_whales_2020.jpg

1684 ms

cruise_dinner.jpg

cruise_dinner.jpg

754 ms

cruise_fridayharbor.jpg

cruise_fridayharbor.jpg

1749 ms

cruise_brewers.jpg

cruise_brewers.jpg

120 ms

cruise_unwined.jpg

cruise_unwined.jpg

121 ms

cruise_birdwatching.jpg

cruise_birdwatching.jpg

121 ms

cruise_sucia.jpg

cruise_sucia.jpg

161 ms

cruise_laconner_2020.jpg

cruise_laconner_2020.jpg

168 ms

ftrNewsletter.jpg

ftrNewsletter.jpg

169 ms

ftrTA.png

ftrTA.png

179 ms

ftrFB.png

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180 ms

ftrYP.png

ftrYP.png

181 ms

ftrTW.png

ftrTW.png

181 ms

ftrGP.png

ftrGP.png

182 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

360 ms

api.ipify.org

api.ipify.org

348 ms

js

js

220 ms

circle.png

circle.png

2763 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

315 ms

bgHdrPhone.jpg

bgHdrPhone.jpg

315 ms

0.gif

0.gif

315 ms

Whale-Watch-Lunch-Cruise-Slider-2020.jpg

Whale-Watch-Lunch-Cruise-Slider-2020.jpg

553 ms

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258 ms

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1Pt2g8TAX_SGgBGUi0tGOYEga5WOwnsS.ttf

283 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

2382 ms

js

js

271 ms

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collect

57 ms

collect

collect

133 ms

collect

collect

147 ms

gen_204

gen_204

237 ms

init_embed.js

init_embed.js

33 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

177 ms

common.js

common.js

245 ms

util.js

util.js

264 ms

log.js

log.js

262 ms

map.js

map.js

221 ms

overlay.js

overlay.js

217 ms

onion.js

onion.js

130 ms

search_impl.js

search_impl.js

130 ms

StaticMapService.GetMapImage

StaticMapService.GetMapImage

226 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

117 ms

kh

kh

217 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

50 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

37 ms

vt

vt

178 ms

vt

vt

141 ms

vt

vt

151 ms

vt

vt

175 ms

vt

vt

153 ms

QuotaService.RecordEvent

QuotaService.RecordEvent

33 ms

controls.js

controls.js

9 ms

css

css

59 ms

css

css

58 ms

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18 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

408 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

337 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

337 ms

Accessibility Review

whales.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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

whales.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

SEO Factors

whales.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

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

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 Whales.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 Whales.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

whales.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Whale S. 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: