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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% 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

friendschoices.com

Friendschoices.com - a community of International Travelers

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Friendschoices content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about friendschoices.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 Friendschoices.com page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 4.1 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

friendschoices.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.483

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

friendschoices.com

271 ms

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360 ms

www.friendschoices.com

848 ms

css

31 ms

css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Friendschoices.com, 50% (48 requests) were made to Img.friendschoices.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain 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 Friendschoices.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. 55% 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. Friendschoices.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

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271 ms

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360 ms

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848 ms

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31 ms

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48 ms

619 ms

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71 ms

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16 ms

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99 ms

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952 ms

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337 ms

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337 ms

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441 ms

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440 ms

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526 ms

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528 ms

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531 ms

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528 ms

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534 ms

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533 ms

Italy.png

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611 ms

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614 ms

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615 ms

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622 ms

Spain.png

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625 ms

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626 ms

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697 ms

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788 ms

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701 ms

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712 ms

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718 ms

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953 ms

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964 ms

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1597 ms

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970 ms

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Accessibility Review

friendschoices.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

friendschoices.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

friendschoices.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 Friendschoices.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 Friendschoices.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

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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: