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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

niagarariverguides.com

Niagara River, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario Fishing Charters Guides

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

22 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Niagarariverguides.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 22.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

niagarariverguides.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

niagarariverguides.com

174 ms

niagarariverguides.com

839 ms

twoColElsLtHdr.css

67 ms

vertical-menubar.css

131 ms

default.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Niagarariverguides.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Vortex.accuweather.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Accuweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

581.2 kB

After Optimization

429.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Niagarariverguides.com main page is 581.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 237.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 2.1 kB, which is 12% 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 12.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 237.2 kB
  • After minification 237.1 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. Niagara River Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 202.4 kB
  • After minification 201.9 kB
  • After compression 169.4 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 33.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 106.6 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. Niagarariverguides.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Niagara River Guides. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

niagarariverguides.com

niagarariverguides.com

174 ms

niagarariverguides.com

niagarariverguides.com

839 ms

twoColElsLtHdr.css

twoColElsLtHdr.css

67 ms

vertical-menubar.css

vertical-menubar.css

131 ms

default.css

default.css

190 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

186 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

187 ms

vertical-menubar.js

vertical-menubar.js

189 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

311 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

196 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

252 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

113 ms

launch.js

launch.js

121 ms

effects.js

effects.js

127 ms

builder.js

builder.js

66 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

81 ms

rainbow_bridge_niagara_falls-bg-6.jpg

rainbow_bridge_niagara_falls-bg-6.jpg

199 ms

header-bg.jpg

header-bg.jpg

124 ms

boat.png

boat.png

241 ms

fish.png

fish.png

80 ms

subcontainer-bg.png

subcontainer-bg.png

80 ms

vertical-menubar-right.gif

vertical-menubar-right.gif

111 ms

bluehost.gif

bluehost.gif

138 ms

nr-016.jpg

nr-016.jpg

190 ms

jumping-fish.png

jumping-fish.png

155 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

61 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

66 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

112 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

vertical-menubar-right-hover.gif

vertical-menubar-right-hover.gif

99 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

132 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

144 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

js

js

83 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

61 ms

widgets-20170109.css

widgets-20170109.css

56 ms

current

current

20284 ms

Accessibility Review

niagarariverguides.com accessibility score

80

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

niagarariverguides.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

niagarariverguides.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Niagarariverguides.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 Niagarariverguides.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Niagara River Guides. 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: