Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

carolinasgolf.org

Carolinas Golf Association - Carolinasgolf.org

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

689 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

carolinasgolf.org screenshot

About Website

Visit carolinasgolf.org now to see the best up-to-date Carolinas Golf content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about carolinasgolf.org

Was founded in 1909 to promote and to protect the game of golf in the Carolinas by providing competitions, education, support and benefits to golfers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carolinasgolf.org page load time and found that the first response time was 689 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carolinasgolf.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.553

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.carolinasgolf.org

689 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

583 ms

rsrc_70b71187e32999ec386488c3bab6bf12.jsx

312 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js

345 ms

lightbox.css

415 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Carolinasgolf.org, 17% (33 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 14% (27 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (702 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 565.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Carolinasgolf.org main page is 4.3 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 41.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Carolinas Golf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 440.1 kB

  • Original 645.0 kB
  • After minification 601.8 kB
  • After compression 204.9 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 440.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 50.2 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. Carolinasgolf.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (43%)

Requests Now

189

After Optimization

108

The browser has sent 189 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carolinas Golf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

carolinasgolf.org accessibility score

71

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

carolinasgolf.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carolinasgolf.org SEO score

92

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

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 Carolinasgolf.org 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 Carolinasgolf.org 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 Carolinas Golf. 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: