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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

blueridgecountry.com

Blue Ridge Country - Exploring the Mountains of the South - Blue Ridge Country

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

665 ms

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About Website

Visit blueridgecountry.com now to see the best up-to-date Blue Ridge Country content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blueridgecountry.com

Blue Ridge Country is an award-winning regional publication featuring stories and information on the communities, outdoors, events and people of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueridgecountry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 1.7 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

blueridgecountry.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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64 ms

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25 ms

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104 ms

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56 ms

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5 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Blueridgecountry.com, 20% (17 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 15% (13 requests) were made to D3t13abgv0q40.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (561 ms) belongs to the original domain Blueridgecountry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blueridgecountry.com main page is 3.1 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. 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 109.9 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 97.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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 Country images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 207.0 kB
  • After minification 207.0 kB
  • After compression 166.5 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 40.5 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 355 B

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 28.3 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Blueridgecountry.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (32%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Ridge Country. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blueridgecountry.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

blueridgecountry.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blueridgecountry.com SEO score

90

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

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 Blueridgecountry.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 Blueridgecountry.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

blueridgecountry.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blue Ridge Country. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: