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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

hersheypark.com

The Largest Amusement Park in PA | Hersheypark

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

865 ms

hersheypark.com screenshot

About Website

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

Visit Hersheypark to experience family rides, thrilling coasters, and so much more! Get your tickets now, or become a 2024 Season Pass Holder.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hersheypark.com page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hersheypark.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hersheypark.com

134 ms

www.hersheypark.com

282 ms

normalize.css

51 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

170 ms

uniform.default.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Hersheypark.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to and 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (899 ms) relates to the external source Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hersheypark.com main page is 1.8 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.8 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 49.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Hersheypark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 328.4 kB

  • Original 496.2 kB
  • After minification 430.6 kB
  • After compression 167.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 328.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 194.9 kB

  • Original 228.2 kB
  • After minification 177.3 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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. Hersheypark.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (58%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hersheypark. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hersheypark.com

hersheypark.com

134 ms

www.hersheypark.com

www.hersheypark.com

282 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

51 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

mediaelementplayer.min.css

170 ms

uniform.default.min.css

uniform.default.min.css

58 ms

style.css

style.css

87 ms

media-queries.css

media-queries.css

105 ms

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validate-res.js

63 ms

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161 ms

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73 ms

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91 ms

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jquery.hoverIntent.1.8.min.js

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144 ms

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jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

146 ms

jquery.slider.js

jquery.slider.js

303 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

488 ms

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jquery.simplemodal.js

545 ms

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jquery.colorbox-1.6.min.js

303 ms

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301 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

540 ms

jquery.uniform.min.js

jquery.uniform.min.js

541 ms

script.js

script.js

484 ms

ga.js

ga.js

140 ms

collect.js

collect.js

54 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

479 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

480 ms

rpk5eud.js

rpk5eud.js

376 ms

activityi;src=4354204;type=HER_F-;cat=ParkH0;ord=73275784961879.25

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370 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

362 ms

logo-reversed.png

logo-reversed.png

285 ms

ride-height.jpg

ride-height.jpg

334 ms

stay-with-us-winter.jpg

stay-with-us-winter.jpg

331 ms

mobile-app.jpg

mobile-app.jpg

318 ms

groups.jpg

groups.jpg

282 ms

hersheypark-springtime-in-the-park.png

hersheypark-springtime-in-the-park.png

345 ms

hersheypark-springtime-in-the-park-rev.png

hersheypark-springtime-in-the-park-rev.png

274 ms

hersheypark-summer.png

hersheypark-summer.png

304 ms

hersheypark-summer-rev.png

hersheypark-summer-rev.png

305 ms

hersheypark-in-the-dark.png

hersheypark-in-the-dark.png

306 ms

hersheypark-in-the-dark-rev.png

hersheypark-in-the-dark-rev.png

317 ms

hersheypark-christmas-candylane.png

hersheypark-christmas-candylane.png

317 ms

hersheypark-christmas-candylane-rev.png

hersheypark-christmas-candylane-rev.png

354 ms

generations.jpg

generations.jpg

766 ms

skyrush.jpg

skyrush.jpg

572 ms

carrousel.jpg

carrousel.jpg

585 ms

callout-1-bg.jpg

callout-1-bg.jpg

345 ms

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callout-2-bg.jpg

327 ms

check-avail-bg.jpg

check-avail-bg.jpg

562 ms

park-sky.jpg

park-sky.jpg

575 ms

location-pin.png

location-pin.png

577 ms

close-x.png

close-x.png

563 ms

email-callout-bg.jpg

email-callout-bg.jpg

563 ms

1416.js

1416.js

265 ms

intro_inline.woff

intro_inline.woff

180 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

157 ms

a

a

218 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

10 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

759 ms

ga.js

ga.js

739 ms

track_page_view

track_page_view

844 ms

fp.js

fp.js

830 ms

uniform.sprite.png

uniform.sprite.png

744 ms

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s

899 ms

u

u

895 ms

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Accessibility Review

hersheypark.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hersheypark.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hersheypark.com SEO score

81

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

hersheypark.com

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