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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

blueridgeonline.com

Blue Ridge Mountains Lodging & Vacation Rentals Travel Guide

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

555 ms

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Blue Ridge Mountains lodging & vacation travel guide for the Blue Ridge Parkway, Shenandoah Valley, Great Smoky and Appalachian Mountains in NC, VA, GA, TN, WV, MD & SC.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueridgeonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 2.8 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

blueridgeonline.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blueridgeonline.com

358 ms

Site.css

273 ms

js

74 ms

widgets.js

9 ms

jsapi

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Blueridgeonline.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Blueridgeonline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 196.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blueridgeonline.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 41.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 135.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Blue Ridge Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 525 B

  • Original 168.0 kB
  • After minification 168.0 kB
  • After compression 167.4 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Blueridgeonline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (16%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Ridge Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blueridgeonline.com accessibility score

92

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

blueridgeonline.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blueridgeonline.com SEO score

69

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

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 Blueridgeonline.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 Blueridgeonline.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 Blue Ridge Online. 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: