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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

friends-choices.com

Friendschoices.com - a community of International Travelers

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

353 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

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About Website

Welcome to friends-choices.com homepage info - get ready to check Friendschoices best content right away, or after learning these important things about friends-choices.com

Friends-choices.com is a travel guide by friends for friends. All gourmet and travel recommendations are done by members of our community of friends

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Key Findings

We analyzed Friends-choices.com page load time and found that the first response time was 353 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

friends-choices.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.501

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

friends-choices.com

353 ms

www.friendschoices.com

348 ms

www.friendschoices.com

751 ms

css

43 ms

css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Friends-choices.com, 50% (48 requests) were made to Img.friendschoices.com and 32% (31 requests) were made to Friendschoices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Friendschoices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 872.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Friends-choices.com main page is 9.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 120.5 kB
  • After minification 109.5 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 101.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 768.6 kB

  • Original 8.8 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Friendschoices images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 209.2 kB
  • After minification 209.2 kB
  • After compression 207.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Friends-choices.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (25%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Friendschoices. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

friends-choices.com

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353 ms

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348 ms

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751 ms

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43 ms

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59 ms

649 ms

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14 ms

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115 ms

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148 ms

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511 ms

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861 ms

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775 ms

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865 ms

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1039 ms

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1040 ms

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170 ms

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501 ms

icon-hotel.png

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504 ms

icon-bar.png

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599 ms

icon-shopping.png

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598 ms

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594 ms

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596 ms

France.png

France.png

600 ms

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591 ms

Italy.png

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676 ms

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678 ms

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683 ms

Portugal.png

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686 ms

Spain.png

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687 ms

Switzerland.png

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693 ms

Singapore.png

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760 ms

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847 ms

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772 ms

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777 ms

Morocco.png

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778 ms

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879 ms

image-rent-car.jpg

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928 ms

image-book-hotel.jpg

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1040 ms

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1297 ms

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1297 ms

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3363 ms

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97 ms

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75 ms

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11 ms

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551 ms

Accessibility Review

friends-choices.com accessibility score

66

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

friends-choices.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

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

friends-choices.com SEO score

74

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

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 doesn't use 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 Friends-choices.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 Friends-choices.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

friends-choices.com

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