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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

wateriders.com

Chicago Kayak Tours and Rentals | Wateriders – Experience the best Kayak Tours and Rentals on the Chicago River!

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Wateriders content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wateriders.com

Wateriders, the pioneers of Chicago River kayaking, has hosted tens of thousands of adventurers on their journey through the steel and concrete canyons of downtown Chicago. Since 1997, we have been co...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wateriders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wateriders.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,420 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value139.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wateriders.com

74 ms

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1194 ms

blocks.style.build.css

8 ms

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31 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Wateriders.com, 15% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Wateriders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

6.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wateriders.com main page is 6.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 128.2 kB

  • Original 148.3 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 47.6 kB, which is 32% 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 128.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Wateriders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 737.9 kB
  • After minification 737.9 kB
  • After compression 665.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 233.7 kB
  • After minification 233.6 kB
  • After compression 207.5 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. Wateriders.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (65%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wateriders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wateriders.com accessibility score

78

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

wateriders.com 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

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

wateriders.com SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wateriders.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 Wateriders.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

wateriders.com

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