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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

raftingamerica.com

Best White Water Rafting Trips in North & South America

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raftingamerica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

raftingamerica.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raftingamerica.com

114 ms

www.raftingamerica.com

998 ms

rafting-america.css

225 ms

js

59 ms

css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Raftingamerica.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (998 ms) belongs to the original domain Raftingamerica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Raftingamerica.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 993.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 33.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 993.6 kB
  • After minification 965.2 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. Rafting America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 62 B

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 136.1 kB
  • After compression 136.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 107.1 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 107.1 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. Raftingamerica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (19%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rafting America. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

raftingamerica.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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

raftingamerica.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

raftingamerica.com SEO score

92

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

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 Raftingamerica.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 Raftingamerica.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 Rafting America. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: