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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gosmokies.knoxnews.com

GoSmokies - A social network for fans of the Great Smoky Mountains

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Go Smokies Knoxnews content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gosmokies.knoxnews.com

GoSmokies is part of www.knoxnews.com, where people may share their favorite trails, photos and.memories of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gosmokies.knoxnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gosmokies.knoxnews.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gosmokies.knoxnews.com

285 ms

gtm.js

72 ms

common-982.min.css

44 ms

component.min.css

50 ms

bottom-bar.min.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Gosmokies.knoxnews.com, 60% (46 requests) were made to Storage.ning.com and 23% (18 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) belongs to the original domain Gosmokies.knoxnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

710.1 kB

After Optimization

476.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gosmokies.knoxnews.com main page is 710.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 555.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. 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 76.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 301 B

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 19.9 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. Go Smokies Knoxnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 156.2 kB

  • Original 555.4 kB
  • After minification 555.4 kB
  • After compression 399.3 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 156.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 769 B

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Gosmokies.knoxnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (32%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Smokies Knoxnews. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gosmokies.knoxnews.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

gosmokies.knoxnews.com best practices score

75

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

gosmokies.knoxnews.com SEO score

85

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gosmokies.knoxnews.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 Gosmokies.knoxnews.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 Go Smokies Knoxnews. 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: