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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

helisimmer.com

HeliSimmer.com • The premier helicopter sim news site

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

helisimmer.com screenshot

About Website

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

Everything about your helicopter flight simulator: news, reviews, articles about Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, Prepar3D, DCS, Aerofly FS, FlightGear and other helicopter flight simulation softw...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helisimmer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helisimmer.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

helisimmer.com

47 ms

helisimmer.com

364 ms

www.helisimmer.com

469 ms

matomo.js

671 ms

container_YHW4jtH7.js

680 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Helisimmer.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (760 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.helisimmer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

956.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helisimmer.com main page is 1.1 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. 75% 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 647.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 57.0 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 46.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 647.8 kB
  • After minification 645.8 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. Heli Simmer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 250.4 kB
  • After minification 250.4 kB
  • After compression 222.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 28.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 109.7 kB
  • After minification 109.7 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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. Helisimmer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (40%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heli Simmer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

helisimmer.com

helisimmer.com

47 ms

helisimmer.com

helisimmer.com

364 ms

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www.helisimmer.com

469 ms

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matomo.js

671 ms

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container_YHW4jtH7.js

680 ms

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77 ms

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62 ms

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263 ms

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581 ms

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264 ms

dcs.png

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264 ms

p3d.png

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265 ms

en-US

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436 ms

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151 ms

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62 ms

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246 ms

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261 ms

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259 ms

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258 ms

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254 ms

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269 ms

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357 ms

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151 ms

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564 ms

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436 ms

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644 ms

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7 ms

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760 ms

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106 ms

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40 ms

Accessibility Review

helisimmer.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

helisimmer.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

helisimmer.com SEO score

85

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 Helisimmer.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 Helisimmer.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

helisimmer.com

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