Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

postandcourier.com

South Carolina News & Charleston SC News | Post and Courier | Charleston, SC. Local News, Sports and Weather

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

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About Website

Visit postandcourier.com now to see the best up-to-date Post And Courier content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about postandcourier.com

South Carolina news reported from Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and North Augusta. Read stories on crime, politics, food and business.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Postandcourier.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

postandcourier.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.postandcourier.com

53 ms

slidebars.css

21 ms

app.css

39 ms

stylesheet.css

20 ms

icomoo.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 218 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Postandcourier.com, 11% (24 requests) were made to Product-images.imshopping.com and 6% (13 requests) were made to Thumbnails.tout.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (928 ms) relates to the external source Product-images.imshopping.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (22%)

Content Size

8.5 MB

After Optimization

6.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Postandcourier.com main page is 8.5 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 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 314.3 kB

  • Original 373.7 kB
  • After minification 358.1 kB
  • After compression 59.4 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 314.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 439.5 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Post And Courier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 884.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 590.2 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 884.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 283.3 kB

  • Original 329.9 kB
  • After minification 315.0 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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. Postandcourier.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (42%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Post And Courier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

postandcourier.com accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

postandcourier.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

postandcourier.com SEO score

79

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Post And Courier. 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: