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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

greatwolf.com

North America’s Largest Family Indoor Water Park Resorts | Great Wolf Lodge

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

greatwolf.com screenshot

About Website

Visit greatwolf.com now to see the best up-to-date Great Wolf content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about greatwolf.com

Great Wolf Lodge combines water park adventures with comfortable accommodations for the perfect family vacation. Book your stay at an indoor water park near you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatwolf.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 10.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatwolf.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatwolf.com

68 ms

williamsburg

52 ms

225544696.js

91 ms

umd-polyfill.1.2.9.min.js

86 ms

clientlib-all.min.329d2482ca5b6146e0a5076352f32984.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 179 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Greatwolf.com, 8% (14 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (12 requests) were made to Prod.cdn.greatwolf.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 343.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greatwolf.com main page is 2.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 269.1 kB

  • Original 310.9 kB
  • After minification 308.5 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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 269.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 579.9 kB
  • After minification 576.6 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. Great Wolf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 49 B

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Greatwolf.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 106 (68%)

Requests Now

157

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 157 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Wolf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

greatwolf.com accessibility score

91

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

greatwolf.com best practices score

75

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

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

greatwolf.com SEO score

86

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Greatwolf.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 Greatwolf.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

greatwolf.com

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