Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

paddlinglife.net

Paddling's Trusted News Source - Paddling Life

Page Load Speed

74 ms in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

37 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Visit paddlinglife.net now to see the best up-to-date Paddling Life content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paddlinglife.net

Paddling Life is paddling's trusted news source for industry news, gear reviews, and how-tos for all things paddling: kayaks, rafts, SUPs, inflatables, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paddlinglife.net page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 37 ms 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.

Performance Metrics

paddlinglife.net performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paddlinglife.net

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Paddlinglife.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (37 ms) belongs to the original domain Paddlinglife.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

862.0 kB

After Optimization

817.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Paddlinglife.net main page is 862.0 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 653.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 692 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 651 B

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 692 B or 52% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 653.3 kB
  • After minification 614.5 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. Paddling Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 157.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

paddlinglife.net accessibility score

91

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

paddlinglife.net SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Paddlinglife.net 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 Paddlinglife.net 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

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