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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

connect.visitbarbados.org

Visit Barbados - The Official Barbados Tourism Guide 2022

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

6.7 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Connect Visit Barbados content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about connect.visitbarbados.org

Barbados Tourist Board can give you everything you need for a perfect holiday, including how to get here, where to stay, what to do and how to enjoy this fabulous island

Visit connect.visitbarbados.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Connect.visitbarbados.org page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 10.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

connect.visitbarbados.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,780 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connect.visitbarbados.org

175 ms

www.visitbarbados.org

300 ms

gtm.js

145 ms

defaultcss.css

34 ms

buttons.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Connect.visitbarbados.org, 63% (118 requests) were made to Visitbarbados.org and 13% (25 requests) were made to Starling.crowdriff.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Visitbarbados.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 685.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connect.visitbarbados.org main page is 5.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 524.1 kB

  • Original 597.6 kB
  • After minification 566.7 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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 524.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Connect Visit Barbados images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 146.5 kB

  • Original 601.8 kB
  • After minification 601.8 kB
  • After compression 455.3 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 146.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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. Connect.visitbarbados.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (40%)

Requests Now

170

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 170 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect Visit Barbados. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

connect.visitbarbados.org accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

connect.visitbarbados.org best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

connect.visitbarbados.org SEO score

78

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Connect.visitbarbados.org 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 Connect.visitbarbados.org 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

connect.visitbarbados.org

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