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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

the-session.info

The Session | Carp Fishing Tips, Techniques and Stories from the Chub ProTeam

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

450 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

357 ms

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About Website

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The Session is the Carp Fishing blog for Greys and Chub. Read posts on carp fishing tips, gear and great captures from the Greys and Chub Academy. Contributors include Ed Betteridge, Mark Holmes, Ian ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-session.info page load time and found that the first response time was 450 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the-session.info performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.19

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-session.info

450 ms

style.css

175 ms

nggallery.css

183 ms

shutter-reloaded.css

184 ms

styles.css

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original The-session.info, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (456 ms) belongs to the original domain The-session.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

613.1 kB

After Optimization

470.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The-session.info main page is 613.1 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 392.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. 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 15.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 392.4 kB
  • After minification 391.2 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. The Session images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 98.6 kB

  • Original 166.7 kB
  • After minification 163.7 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 98.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. The-session.info needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (56%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Session. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

the-session.info

the-session.info

450 ms

style.css

style.css

175 ms

nggallery.css

nggallery.css

183 ms

shutter-reloaded.css

shutter-reloaded.css

184 ms

styles.css

styles.css

182 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

18 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

456 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

330 ms

shutter-reloaded.js

shutter-reloaded.js

331 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

381 ms

ngg.slideshow.min.js

ngg.slideshow.min.js

330 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

collect

collect

66 ms

lilly_bg.jpg

lilly_bg.jpg

443 ms

960top08-14.jpg

960top08-14.jpg

183 ms

Ravo-June-16th-1984-230x150.jpg

Ravo-June-16th-1984-230x150.jpg

182 ms

Matt-Eaton-225x150.jpg

Matt-Eaton-225x150.jpg

185 ms

Accessibility Review

the-session.info accessibility score

85

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

the-session.info best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

the-session.info SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 The-session.info 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 The-session.info 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

the-session.info

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Session. 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: