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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

discoverboating.com

Boating Guide, Find Your Dream Boat | Discover Boating

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

551 ms

About Website

Welcome to discoverboating.com homepage info - get ready to check Discover Boating best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about discoverboating.com

Discover Boating is proud to be the world's largest online resource and guide to recreational boating. Learn about boats and read our boat buying guide, outlining how to buy a boat step by step, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverboating.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 3.5 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

discoverboating.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,350 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverboating.com

72 ms

www.discoverboating.com

93 ms

gtm.js

120 ms

api.js

66 ms

css_qvjk54NsEKB3NulMeveon0by61LOTBc9ToDwDIG2iDM.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverboating.com, 9% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (756 ms) relates to the external source 14474753.fls.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverboating.com main page is 4.8 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. 85% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 152.1 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 187.1 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 152.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Discover Boating images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 884.2 kB
  • After minification 884.1 kB
  • After compression 855.1 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 15.5 kB

  • Original 180.9 kB
  • After minification 180.9 kB
  • After compression 165.3 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. Discoverboating.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (63%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Boating. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

discoverboating.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

discoverboating.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

discoverboating.com SEO score

79

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

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

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 Discoverboating.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 Discoverboating.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 Discover Boating. 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: