Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thepassportmemorandum.com

The Passport Memorandum || A TRAVEL BLOG WRITTEN BY LONG-TERM TRAVELERS

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

670 ms

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About Website

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The Passport Memorandum, a travel blog featuring travel guides, tips, stories, and travel photography.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepassportmemorandum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepassportmemorandum.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,860 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepassportmemorandum.com

2566 ms

www.thepassportmemorandum.com

1787 ms

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2061 ms

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1889 ms

common-df043f37c6d277176d82-min.en-US.js

2215 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Thepassportmemorandum.com, 25% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 17% (10 requests) were made to Images.squarespace-cdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepassportmemorandum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 715.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Thepassportmemorandum.com main page is 5.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 121.3 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.9 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 113.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 600.7 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Obviously, The Passport Memorandum needs image optimization as it can save up to 600.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 754 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 342 B

  • Original 64.9 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Thepassportmemorandum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Passport Memorandum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thepassportmemorandum.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

thepassportmemorandum.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thepassportmemorandum.com SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thepassportmemorandum.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 Thepassportmemorandum.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 The Passport Memorandum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: