Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

explorecaldwell.com

Caldwell County and Lenoir, NC - Sculpted By Nature. Crafted By Man.

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

966 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explorecaldwell.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

explorecaldwell.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

explorecaldwell.com

188 ms

autoptimize_5ad119e51c5c772ab4b928aad312a9f1.css

78 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

js

114 ms

styles.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Explorecaldwell.com, 25% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 17% (11 requests) were made to 405605.smushcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source 405605.smushcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Explorecaldwell.com main page is 2.4 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 230.2 kB

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 278.3 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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 230.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Explore Caldwell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 167.8 kB
  • After minification 167.8 kB
  • After compression 167.8 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. Explorecaldwell.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (43%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore Caldwell. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

explorecaldwell.com accessibility score

59

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

explorecaldwell.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

explorecaldwell.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Explorecaldwell.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 Explorecaldwell.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 Explore Caldwell. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: