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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

charlottespecialevents.com

The Charlotte Special Events Group & Destination Management

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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About Website

Welcome to charlottespecialevents.com homepage info - get ready to check Charlotte Special Events best content right away, or after learning these important things about charlottespecialevents.com

The Charlotte Special Events Group, drawn from a variety of industries, including hospitality, event management, travel, radio and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlottespecialevents.com page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlottespecialevents.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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118 ms

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1759 ms

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Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Charlottespecialevents.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Charlottespecialevents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlottespecialevents.com main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 39.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 650 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Charlotte Special Events images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 65.0 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. Charlottespecialevents.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (59%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charlotte Special Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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118 ms

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Accessibility Review

charlottespecialevents.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

charlottespecialevents.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

charlottespecialevents.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Charlottespecialevents.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 Charlottespecialevents.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

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