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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

tourism.mt.gov

Home - Brand MT

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tourism.mt.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tourism.mt.gov performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tourism.mt.gov

218 ms

591 ms

css2

55 ms

all.min.css

48 ms

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tourism.mt.gov, 54% (33 requests) were made to Commerce.mt.gov and 11% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Commerce.mt.gov.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tourism.mt.gov main page is 4.0 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 239.5 kB

  • Original 250.7 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 161.3 kB, which is 64% 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 239.5 kB or 96% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Tourism MT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 4.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Tourism.mt.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.1 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (50%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tourism MT. 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 from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tourism.mt.gov

tourism.mt.gov

218 ms

591 ms

css2

css2

55 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

48 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

bootstrap-icons.css

38 ms

main.css

main.css

45 ms

dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css

dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css

67 ms

styles.css

styles.css

236 ms

compiled.css

compiled.css

406 ms

photo-gallery.css

photo-gallery.css

258 ms

commerce.css

commerce.css

106 ms

template.css

template.css

348 ms

template.js

template.js

346 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

47 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

31 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

13 ms

dbf8152a72.js

dbf8152a72.js

76 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

39 ms

320e1d7e9e.js

320e1d7e9e.js

65 ms

ekko-lightbox.min.js

ekko-lightbox.min.js

43 ms

jquery.dataTables.min.js

jquery.dataTables.min.js

34 ms

news-gallery.js

news-gallery.js

100 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

168 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

185 ms

photo-gallery.js

photo-gallery.js

187 ms

shim.js

shim.js

190 ms

yellow-arrow.svg

yellow-arrow.svg

73 ms

main-logo.svg

main-logo.svg

172 ms

Tourism-and-Marketing.jpg

Tourism-and-Marketing.jpg

434 ms

Whitefish.jpg

Whitefish.jpg

948 ms

Consumer_and_Content_Marketing_Header.jpg

Consumer_and_Content_Marketing_Header.jpg

635 ms

Destination-MT-Division_Header.jpg

Destination-MT-Division_Header.jpg

879 ms

Lodging-Facility-Use-Tax_Header.jpg

Lodging-Facility-Use-Tax_Header.jpg

633 ms

MIM-homepage-card.jpg

MIM-homepage-card.jpg

563 ms

fire-rescue-truck.jpg

fire-rescue-truck.jpg

601 ms

VisitMontana-1_GlacierCo_KyleKotajarvi-scaled.jpg

VisitMontana-1_GlacierCo_KyleKotajarvi-scaled.jpg

1900 ms

Office-of-Tourism_Header.jpg

Office-of-Tourism_Header.jpg

690 ms

Partners_Header.jpg

Partners_Header.jpg

967 ms

Resources_Header.jpg

Resources_Header.jpg

887 ms

The-Montana-Brand_Header.jpg

The-Montana-Brand_Header.jpg

1013 ms

VISITMT.COM_Header.jpg

VISITMT.COM_Header.jpg

1273 ms

Tourism-Research_Header.jpg

Tourism-Research_Header.jpg

1145 ms

Tradeshow_Header.jpg

Tradeshow_Header.jpg

1198 ms

tribal-tourism.jpg

tribal-tourism.jpg

1064 ms

Governors-Conference-On-Tourism_Header.jpg

Governors-Conference-On-Tourism_Header.jpg

1335 ms

Initiatives_Header.jpg

Initiatives_Header.jpg

1316 ms

Tourism-Regions-and-CVBs_Header.jpg

Tourism-Regions-and-CVBs_Header.jpg

1238 ms

Tourism-Grant-Program_Header.jpg

Tourism-Grant-Program_Header.jpg

1369 ms

gold-montana-outline.svg

gold-montana-outline.svg

1325 ms

footer-logo.svg

footer-logo.svg

1354 ms

Equal-Housing-Opportunity-Logo-white.svg

Equal-Housing-Opportunity-Logo-white.svg

1404 ms

font.woff

font.woff

2057 ms

bootstrap-icons.woff

bootstrap-icons.woff

105 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

105 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

104 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

bootstrap-icons.css

4 ms

320e1d7e9e.css

320e1d7e9e.css

18 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

43 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

37 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

38 ms

Accessibility Review

tourism.mt.gov accessibility score

83

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

tourism.mt.gov best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tourism.mt.gov SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Tourism.mt.gov 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 Tourism.mt.gov 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

tourism.mt.gov

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