Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

connectsavannah.com

Savannah News, Events, Restaurants, Music | Connect Savannah

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

connectsavannah.com screenshot

About Website

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The Savannah, Georgia alternative weekly newspaper for breaking news and local news, music, arts, events, restaurant and bar listings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connectsavannah.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

connectsavannah.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value40.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value90.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connectsavannah.com

35 ms

connectsavannah.com

297 ms

www.connectsavannah.com

111 ms

www.connectsavannah.com

343 ms

desktop.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Connectsavannah.com, 25% (27 requests) were made to Media1.connectsavannah.com and 19% (21 requests) were made to Media2.connectsavannah.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Connectsavannah.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 574.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Connectsavannah.com main page is 8.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 184.7 kB

  • Original 216.3 kB
  • After minification 215.8 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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 184.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 370.0 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. Connect Savannah images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 555.6 kB
  • After minification 555.5 kB
  • After compression 536.0 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 155 B

  • Original 221.2 kB
  • After minification 221.2 kB
  • After compression 221.0 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. Connectsavannah.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (20%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect Savannah. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

connectsavannah.com accessibility score

93

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

connectsavannah.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

connectsavannah.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 Connectsavannah.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 Connectsavannah.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 data is detected on the main page of Connect Savannah. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: