Access carolinameadows.org. Retirement Community, Chapel Hill

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

carolinameadows.org

41 ms

carolinameadows.org

27 ms

gtm.js

239 ms

style.min.css

15 ms

styles.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Carolinameadows.org, 12% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Carolinameadows.org main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

Original 99.8 kB
After minification 81.2 kB
After compression 13.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.6 kB, which is 19% 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 85.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.8 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. Carolina Meadows images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 73.7 kB

Original 341.5 kB
After minification 305.1 kB
After compression 267.8 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 73.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

Original 44.0 kB
After minification 44.0 kB
After compression 42.2 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. Carolinameadows.org has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carolina Meadows. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.