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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

columbiahg.com

Columbia Home & Garden | Our magazine showcases homes, gardens, people, lifestyles, and other information about the greater Columbia, SC area.

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

538 ms

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Our magazine showcases homes, gardens, people, lifestyles, and other information about the greater Columbia, SC area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbiahg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbiahg.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbiahg.com

35 ms

columbiahomeandgarden.com

310 ms

style.css

27 ms

widget.css

56 ms

gtranslate-style24.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Columbiahg.com, 86% (59 requests) were made to Columbiahomeandgarden.com and 13% (9 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Columbiahomeandgarden.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

815.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Columbiahg.com main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 620.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 5.9 kB, which is 11% 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 42.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 39.9 kB

  • Original 620.2 kB
  • After minification 580.3 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. Columbia Hg images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 185.6 kB

  • Original 368.2 kB
  • After minification 332.2 kB
  • After compression 182.5 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 185.6 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 63.7 kB

  • Original 105.3 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Columbiahg.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (66%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbia Hg. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

columbiahg.com accessibility score

90

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

columbiahg.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

columbiahg.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Columbiahg.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Columbiahg.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 Columbia Hg. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: