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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

towerguides.com

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Towerguides.com page load time and found that the first response time was 540 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

towerguides.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.226

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

towerguides.com

540 ms

getslide.js

29 ms

counter.js

17 ms

LogoUset.gif

82 ms

leaner.jpg

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Towerguides.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com and 6% (1 request) were made to C.statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Towerguides.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

660.1 kB

After Optimization

626.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Towerguides.com main page is 660.1 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 622.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.0 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 6.9 kB, which is 18% 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 31.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 622.0 kB
  • After minification 620.1 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. Tower Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 522 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 999 B
  • After compression 513 B

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 522 B or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tower Guides. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

towerguides.com

towerguides.com

540 ms

getslide.js

getslide.js

29 ms

counter.js

counter.js

17 ms

LogoUset.gif

LogoUset.gif

82 ms

leaner.jpg

leaner.jpg

84 ms

stairwayopt.jpg

stairwayopt.jpg

82 ms

wallofkong.jpg

wallofkong.jpg

117 ms

USMGABigBlack.jpg

USMGABigBlack.jpg

151 ms

sanjuanstxt.jpg

sanjuanstxt.jpg

77 ms

silvertonwintertxt.jpg

silvertonwintertxt.jpg

76 ms

HtmlExp.gif

HtmlExp.gif

152 ms

HtmlExpbl.gif

HtmlExpbl.gif

353 ms

daveverdeto.jpg

daveverdeto.jpg

123 ms

kismetopt115.jpg

kismetopt115.jpg

161 ms

chrisice2.jpg

chrisice2.jpg

126 ms

t.php

t.php

65 ms

0507bandeto.png

0507bandeto.png

485 ms

Accessibility Review

towerguides.com accessibility score

54

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.

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

towerguides.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

towerguides.com SEO score

46

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Towerguides.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 Towerguides.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

towerguides.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tower Guides. 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: