Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

waterwaystravel.com

Waterways Travel Surf Adventures | Expertly Crafted Surf Experiences, Surf Travel, Surf Trips

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

624 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Waterways Travel specializes in unique surf travel and surf trips around the globe, with premier surf destinations like Tavarua Island and Chicama Surf Resort.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterwaystravel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 624 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterwaystravel.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.718

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterwaystravel.com

624 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

12 ms

theme-my-login.css

15 ms

wsi-public.css

18 ms

normalize.css

600 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Waterwaystravel.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (624 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterwaystravel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 804.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Waterwaystravel.com main page is 9.4 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. 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 8.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 75.8 kB
  • After minification 56.9 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 18.8 kB, which is 25% 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 65.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 86.9 kB

  • Original 8.4 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Waterways Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 274.4 kB

  • Original 401.6 kB
  • After minification 355.5 kB
  • After compression 127.2 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 274.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 377.8 kB

  • Original 527.8 kB
  • After minification 473.3 kB
  • After compression 150.0 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. Waterwaystravel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 377.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (29%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterways Travel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterwaystravel.com 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

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.

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

waterwaystravel.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

waterwaystravel.com SEO score

98

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 Waterwaystravel.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 Waterwaystravel.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 description is not detected on the main page of Waterways Travel. 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: