Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

hickerphoto.com

Travel, Nature & Wildlife Photography - Rolf Hicker Photography

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

610 ms

Page Rendered

356 ms

About Website

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

Travel, Nature & Wildlife Photography by award-winning, pro photographer Rolf Hicker. Offering image licensing, photo prints and photo tours from northern Vancouver Island, BC

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickerphoto.com page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 966 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hickerphoto.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hickerphoto.com

196 ms

hickerphoto.com

137 ms

cdn_mg_40203-ed-jpg-768x512.webp

269 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hickerphoto.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (269 ms) belongs to the original domain Hickerphoto.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 457.3 kB (55%)

Content Size

828.8 kB

After Optimization

371.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Hickerphoto.com main page is 828.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 516.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 136.8 kB
  • After minification 136.5 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 113.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 156.2 kB
  • After minification 148.2 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. Hicker Photo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 322.2 kB

  • Original 516.7 kB
  • After minification 516.5 kB
  • After compression 194.5 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 322.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Hickerphoto.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hicker Photo. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

hickerphoto.com accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

hickerphoto.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

hickerphoto.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hickerphoto.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 Hickerphoto.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 data is detected on the main page of Hicker Photo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: