Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

nuggethunting.com

Rob Allison's site dedicated to gold prospecting, gold nugget hunting with a Minelab metal detector, GPX5000

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

189 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

nuggethunting.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Nugget Hunting content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nuggethunting.com

This site is dedicated to gold prospectors searching for placer gold and gold nuggets with a Minelab metal detector, GPX5000.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nuggethunting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 189 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nuggethunting.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nuggethunting.com

189 ms

arts1011.css

54 ms

minelab-certified-gold-trainer.png

3237 ms

counter.php

63 ms

ColorMinelabLogo2010.gif

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Nuggethunting.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Robsdetectors.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cb.amazingcounters.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Robsdetectors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (6%)

Content Size

24.1 MB

After Optimization

22.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Nuggethunting.com main page is 24.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 24.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 41.1 kB
  • After minification 39.5 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 30.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 24.1 MB
  • After minification 22.6 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. Nugget Hunting images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Nuggethunting.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nugget Hunting. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

nuggethunting.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

nuggethunting.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

nuggethunting.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nuggethunting.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 Nuggethunting.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

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