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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

bikepacking.net

bikepacking.net

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bikepacking.net homepage info - get ready to check Bikepacking best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about bikepacking.net

bikepacking.net covers everything you need for lightweight offroad touring -- gear reviews, routes, trip reports, community discussion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bikepacking.net page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bikepacking.net performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bikepacking.net

402 ms

style.css

83 ms

postratings-css.css

155 ms

jquery.js

228 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Bikepacking.net, 34% (20 requests) were made to Gravatar.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source I1.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

714.8 kB

After Optimization

637.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bikepacking.net main page is 714.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 568.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 28.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 568.7 kB
  • After minification 546.0 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. Bikepacking images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 101.8 kB
  • After compression 78.8 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 23.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. Bikepacking.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (33%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bikepacking. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bikepacking.net

www.bikepacking.net

402 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

postratings-css.css

postratings-css.css

155 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

228 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

154 ms

wp-ajax-response.min.js

wp-ajax-response.min.js

155 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

156 ms

wp-ajax-edit-comments.js

wp-ajax-edit-comments.js

160 ms

edit-comments.css

edit-comments.css

242 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

241 ms

style.css

style.css

251 ms

postratings-js.js

postratings-js.js

252 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

253 ms

smooth.js

smooth.js

321 ms

dim.js

dim.js

321 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

220 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

32 ms

IMG_E7544.jpg

IMG_E7544.jpg

124 ms

IMG_7728.jpg

IMG_7728.jpg

1058 ms

IMG_3626.jpg

IMG_3626.jpg

126 ms

bp_logo_v2_trans.png

bp_logo_v2_trans.png

116 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

65 ms

headarka-wide.gif

headarka-wide.gif

116 ms

header-wp.gif

header-wp.gif

255 ms

search-text.gif

search-text.gif

121 ms

search-submit.gif

search-submit.gif

149 ms

navigation-bg.gif

navigation-bg.gif

150 ms

sidebar-bg.gif

sidebar-bg.gif

147 ms

tback.gif

tback.gif

385 ms

0029.jpg

0029.jpg

420 ms

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katy-roundhouse-katy-trail-missouri-2019-1024x768.jpg

591 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

62 ms

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avatar.php

72 ms

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avatar.php

110 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

71 ms

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collect

72 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

192 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

62 ms

rating_over.gif

rating_over.gif

188 ms

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avatar.php

60 ms

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avatar.php

60 ms

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avatar.php

59 ms

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avatar.php

60 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

58 ms

wrap-bottom.gif

wrap-bottom.gif

199 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

271 ms

next.png

next.png

201 ms

prev.png

prev.png

279 ms

avatar.php

avatar.php

17 ms

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js

js

62 ms

Accessibility Review

bikepacking.net 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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

Best Practices

bikepacking.net best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bikepacking.net SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bikepacking.net 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 Bikepacking.net 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

bikepacking.net

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