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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

castles.today

Castles Today (Castles of the World)

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

638 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

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About Website

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Castles Today (Castles of the World)

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castles.today page load time and found that the first response time was 638 ms and then it took 2.3 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

castles.today performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.721

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castles.today

638 ms

ga.js

13 ms

castle-cookie-logo.png

663 ms

cookies.png

684 ms

en.jpg

494 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Castles.today, 20% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) belongs to the original domain Castles.today.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 698.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castles.today main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 861.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.3 kB, which is 32% 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 31.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 861.9 kB
  • After minification 846.3 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. Castles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 408.3 kB

  • Original 608.8 kB
  • After minification 586.2 kB
  • After compression 200.4 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 408.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 243.1 kB

  • Original 296.6 kB
  • After minification 282.3 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. Castles.today needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

castles.today

castles.today

638 ms

ga.js

ga.js

13 ms

castle-cookie-logo.png

castle-cookie-logo.png

663 ms

cookies.png

cookies.png

684 ms

en.jpg

en.jpg

494 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

170 ms

like.php

like.php

225 ms

allLib.min.js

allLib.min.js

994 ms

project.js

project.js

533 ms

css

css

84 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

764 ms

style.css

style.css

595 ms

minimalist.css

minimalist.css

44 ms

logo.png

logo.png

847 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

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38 ms

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49 ms

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33 ms

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74 ms

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jot

92 ms

icons.png

icons.png

111 ms

events-on-main.png

events-on-main.png

425 ms

liStyle.jpg

liStyle.jpg

118 ms

events.png

events.png

324 ms

castles-on-map.png

castles-on-map.png

471 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

321 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

320 ms

otakoyi.png

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324 ms

close.png

close.png

325 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

326 ms

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prev.png

426 ms

next.png

next.png

423 ms

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sdk.js

sdk.js

58 ms

2jpg-1.jpg

2jpg-1.jpg

209 ms

matsumotojpg-1.jpg

matsumotojpg-1.jpg

321 ms

malborkjpg-1.jpg

malborkjpg-1.jpg

310 ms

predjama-castle-1.jpg

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412 ms

39 ms

xd_arbiter.php

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21 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

28 ms

Accessibility Review

castles.today accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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>).

Best Practices

castles.today 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

castles.today SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

castles.today

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