Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

stormskiing.com

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast | Stuart Winchester | Substack

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stormskiing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 3.9 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

stormskiing.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,450 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.623

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stormskiing.com

65 ms

www.stormskiing.com

309 ms

main.css

184 ms

main.css

149 ms

c41771aeccbb43fbbffbc4755e65c9be.min.js

645 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Stormskiing.com, 85% (22 requests) were made to Substackcdn.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Js.sentry-cdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) relates to the external source Substackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

705.0 kB

After Optimization

514.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Stormskiing.com main page is 705.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 493.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 178.3 kB

  • Original 210.9 kB
  • After minification 209.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 178.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 493.1 kB
  • After minification 480.4 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. Storm Skiing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Storm Skiing. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

stormskiing.com accessibility score

68

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

stormskiing.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

stormskiing.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Stormskiing.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 Stormskiing.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Storm Skiing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: