Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

alexcityoutlook.com

Alexander City Outlook | Lighting the way for Alexander City and Lake Martin since 1892

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

633 ms

alexcityoutlook.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexcityoutlook.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alexcityoutlook.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value68.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexcityoutlook.com

49 ms

www.alexcityoutlook.com

72 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

120 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

108 ms

theme-basic.a7351649a9c39f0af7c6d288a87ef140.css

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Alexcityoutlook.com, 28% (41 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 13% (19 requests) were made to Encore.scdn.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Sdk.mrf.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 808.0 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Alexcityoutlook.com main page is 3.0 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. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 533.7 kB

  • Original 746.6 kB
  • After minification 679.4 kB
  • After compression 212.9 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 533.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 92.2 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. Obviously, Alex City Outlook needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.2 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 241.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 1.8 MB

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 241.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 119.1 kB
  • After minification 119.1 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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. Alexcityoutlook.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (79%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alex City Outlook. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 81 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alexcityoutlook.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

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

Best Practices

alexcityoutlook.com best practices score

75

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

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

alexcityoutlook.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Alexcityoutlook.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 Alexcityoutlook.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 data is detected on the main page of Alex City Outlook. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: