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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

charlestonfootprints.com

Charleston SC Walking Tours: Sightseeing tour in historic, downtown Charleston. 843-433-9324

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

847 ms

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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Scenic, entertaining, educational tours of historic Charleston with 7th generation native guide Michael Trouche - award-winning journalist and author, and expert tour guide on Charleston history, arch...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlestonfootprints.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 992 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlestonfootprints.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.24

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlestonfootprints.com

78 ms

www.charlestonfootprints.com

78 ms

www.charlestonfootprints.com

130 ms

font-awesome.min.css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Charlestonfootprints.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (244 ms) belongs to the original domain Charlestonfootprints.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

987.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlestonfootprints.com main page is 1.0 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 793.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 8.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 5.1 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 793.0 kB
  • After minification 741.7 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. Charleston Footprints images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 184.1 kB
  • After minification 184.1 kB
  • After compression 181.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 241 B

  • Original 61.7 kB
  • After minification 61.7 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Charlestonfootprints.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (52%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charleston Footprints. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

charlestonfootprints.com

charlestonfootprints.com

78 ms

www.charlestonfootprints.com

www.charlestonfootprints.com

78 ms

www.charlestonfootprints.com

www.charlestonfootprints.com

130 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

60 ms

css

css

66 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

75 ms

charlestonfootprints.css

charlestonfootprints.css

42 ms

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192 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

57 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

65 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

64 ms

global.js

global.js

66 ms

logo.png

logo.png

97 ms

home-page-photo.jpg

home-page-photo.jpg

244 ms

google-review.png

google-review.png

191 ms

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palmetto%20guild%20guide.jpg

217 ms

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triplogo162w.gif

13 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

tour.jpg

tour.jpg

78 ms

building.jpeg

building.jpeg

75 ms

michael.jpg

michael.jpg

62 ms

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__utm.gif

11 ms

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19 ms

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28 ms

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11 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

10 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

28 ms

base.js

base.js

56 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

162 ms

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39 ms

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23 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

charlestonfootprints.com accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

charlestonfootprints.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

charlestonfootprints.com SEO score

86

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 Charlestonfootprints.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 Charlestonfootprints.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

charlestonfootprints.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Charleston Footprints. 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: