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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

thesurfersclub.com

The Surfers Club | Board Store | Trips & Travel | Surf Videos

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesurfersclub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 1.9 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

thesurfersclub.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.246

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesurfersclub.com

1264 ms

style.css

71 ms

hcsgshield125.png

207 ms

VTG-MemberOf.png

296 ms

SurfsUp.jpg

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Thesurfersclub.com, 7% (1 request) were made to Surfingguard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesurfersclub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

778.9 kB

After Optimization

747.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesurfersclub.com main page is 778.9 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 763.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 2.6 kB, which is 31% 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 6.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 763.8 kB
  • After minification 744.5 kB

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. The Surfers Club images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Thesurfersclub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Surfers Club. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thesurfersclub.com

thesurfersclub.com

1264 ms

style.css

style.css

71 ms

hcsgshield125.png

hcsgshield125.png

207 ms

VTG-MemberOf.png

VTG-MemberOf.png

296 ms

SurfsUp.jpg

SurfsUp.jpg

214 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

262 ms

welcome.png

welcome.png

218 ms

newrule.gif

newrule.gif

215 ms

try.png

try.png

391 ms

join.jpg

join.jpg

73 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

72 ms

middle.png

middle.png

74 ms

top.jpg

top.jpg

289 ms

navi1.png

navi1.png

75 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

246 ms

Accessibility Review

thesurfersclub.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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thesurfersclub.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thesurfersclub.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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesurfersclub.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thesurfersclub.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thesurfersclub.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Surfers Club. 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: