Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gstc.org

Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC): Criteria, Standards, Certifications

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

gstc.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing GSTC content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gstc.org

GSTC manages global standards for sustainable travel and tourism, and acts as the international accreditation body for sustainable tourism certification

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gstc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 10 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

gstc.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gstc.org

66 ms

www.gstcouncil.org

4259 ms

autoptimize_6fa0dda3cbcbd127cdd0399c5aeb2565.css

65 ms

02b68740fd43bda703f91a678668fc0e.min.css

189 ms

jquery.min.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 297 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gstc.org, 80% (238 requests) were made to Gstcouncil.org and 19% (55 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source Gstcouncil.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Gstc.org main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 330.7 kB

  • Original 365.7 kB
  • After minification 365.5 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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 330.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. GSTC images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (6%)

Requests Now

234

After Optimization

221

The browser has sent 234 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GSTC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gstc.org accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

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

gstc.org best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gstc.org SEO score

93

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

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 Gstc.org 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 Gstc.org 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

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