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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

rccatalyst.com

Foothills Catalyst – The news source of the NC Foothills

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

235 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

About Website

Visit rccatalyst.com now to see the best up-to-date Rc Catalyst content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rccatalyst.com

RC Catalyst is THE news source for Rutherford County, NC and surrounding area. Daily updates for Rutherfordton, Spindale, Forest City and Lake Lure. Arrests with mugshots are published 5 days a week. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rccatalyst.com page load time and found that the first response time was 235 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rccatalyst.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rccatalyst.com

235 ms

foothillscatalyst.com

477 ms

stat.css

130 ms

style.min.css

262 ms

styles.css

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rccatalyst.com, 89% (41 requests) were made to Foothillscatalyst.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (592 ms) relates to the external source Foothillscatalyst.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

918.5 kB

After Optimization

440.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rccatalyst.com main page is 918.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 643.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 118.8 kB
  • After minification 117.3 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 99.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 235 B

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 96.9 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. Rc Catalyst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 373.9 kB

  • Original 643.2 kB
  • After minification 643.2 kB
  • After compression 269.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 373.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 54.8 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. Rccatalyst.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (73%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rc Catalyst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rccatalyst.com accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

rccatalyst.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rccatalyst.com SEO score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Rccatalyst.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 Rccatalyst.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 Rc Catalyst. 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: