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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

locatepress.com

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Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

944 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Locatepress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

locatepress.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locatepress.com

26 ms

locatepress.com

404 ms

stylesheet.min.css

14 ms

my.min.css

23 ms

custom.min.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Locatepress.com, 17% (6 requests) were made to Blog.locatepress.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (653 ms) belongs to the original domain Locatepress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (22%)

Content Size

11.5 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Locatepress.com main page is 11.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 13.8 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 10.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 11.4 MB
  • After minification 8.9 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. Obviously, Locate Press needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.5 MB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 104.6 kB
  • After minification 104.6 kB
  • After compression 72.7 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 32.0 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Locatepress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (17%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Locate Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

locatepress.com

locatepress.com

26 ms

locatepress.com

locatepress.com

404 ms

stylesheet.min.css

stylesheet.min.css

14 ms

my.min.css

my.min.css

23 ms

custom.min.css

custom.min.css

21 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

34 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

46 ms

js

js

75 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

46 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

99 ms

spatial-sql-book-gis.png

spatial-sql-book-gis.png

123 ms

image_2023-11-01_135534281.png

image_2023-11-01_135534281.png

186 ms

osgis-review1.png

osgis-review1.png

201 ms

rebel3.png

rebel3.png

194 ms

gee-launch1.png

gee-launch1.png

194 ms

image_2023-06-25_111722423.png

image_2023-06-25_111722423.png

210 ms

locate-press-logo-geospatial-300x.png

locate-press-logo-geospatial-300x.png

36 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

16 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

36 ms

locate-press-head-geospatial-books.jpg

locate-press-head-geospatial-books.jpg

91 ms

rgis.png

rgis.png

206 ms

qmm.png

qmm.png

249 ms

ppg3-fr.png

ppg3-fr.png

236 ms

sql_3D_750x966px.png

sql_3D_750x966px.png

252 ms

osg_3D_750x966px.png

osg_3D_750x966px.png

264 ms

gmp_3D_750x966px.png

gmp_3D_750x966px.png

252 ms

rgis1.png

rgis1.png

541 ms

dq3_2nd_225px.png

dq3_2nd_225px.png

439 ms

hyd2_230x.png

hyd2_230x.png

453 ms

collect

collect

20 ms

Gilmer-Regular.woff

Gilmer-Regular.woff

468 ms

Gilmer-Medium.woff

Gilmer-Medium.woff

443 ms

Gilmer-Light.woff

Gilmer-Light.woff

432 ms

Gilmer-Bold.woff

Gilmer-Bold.woff

641 ms

Gilmer-Heavy.woff

Gilmer-Heavy.woff

653 ms

js

js

55 ms

Accessibility Review

locatepress.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

locatepress.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

locatepress.com SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Locatepress.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 Locatepress.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

locatepress.com

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