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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

gorgeconnection.com

Columbia River Gorge - News, Events, Restaurants, Lodging, Wine, Classifieds, Coupons, Forum

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

633 ms

Page Rendered

200 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gorgeconnection.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 833 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gorgeconnection.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gorgeconnection.com

241 ms

css.css

124 ms

rhd.gif

76 ms

bg-header.gif

65 ms

gorge-connection.gif

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Gorgeconnection.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Klemann.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (318 ms) belongs to the original domain Gorgeconnection.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.7 kB (42%)

Content Size

58.5 kB

After Optimization

33.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gorgeconnection.com main page is 58.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 15.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 729 B

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 27.0 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. Gorge Connection images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Gorgeconnection.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gorge Connection. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gorgeconnection.com

gorgeconnection.com

241 ms

css.css

css.css

124 ms

rhd.gif

rhd.gif

76 ms

bg-header.gif

bg-header.gif

65 ms

gorge-connection.gif

gorge-connection.gif

66 ms

bg-button-h-blue.gif

bg-button-h-blue.gif

139 ms

go-now.gif

go-now.gif

140 ms

gorge-connection-classifieds.gif

gorge-connection-classifieds.gif

140 ms

gorge-connection-coupons.gif

gorge-connection-coupons.gif

140 ms

gorge-connection-services.gif

gorge-connection-services.gif

140 ms

bg-leftmenu.gif

bg-leftmenu.gif

140 ms

icon-gc.png

icon-gc.png

191 ms

icon-cherry.png

icon-cherry.png

191 ms

icon-windsurfing.png

icon-windsurfing.png

192 ms

icon-mt-hood.png

icon-mt-hood.png

193 ms

icon-observatory.png

icon-observatory.png

194 ms

icon-oars.png

icon-oars.png

194 ms

icon-salmon.png

icon-salmon.png

254 ms

icon-fishing-pole.png

icon-fishing-pole.png

254 ms

icon-more.png

icon-more.png

255 ms

bg-h3.gif

bg-h3.gif

255 ms

icon-arrow.png

icon-arrow.png

256 ms

divider.gif

divider.gif

256 ms

bg-right-top.gif

bg-right-top.gif

318 ms

newsletter.gif

newsletter.gif

318 ms

350x150.jpg

350x150.jpg

318 ms

tourist-attractions.jpg

tourist-attractions.jpg

318 ms

Accessibility Review

gorgeconnection.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

gorgeconnection.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gorgeconnection.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

gorgeconnection.com

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