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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

gowilkes.com

GoWilkes - The Community Website for Wilkes County, Wilkesboro, and North Wilkesboro, NC

Page Load Speed

23.3 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

15.1 sec

Page Rendered

8 sec

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About Website

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GoWilkes Wilkes business directory, free classifieds, and free personals for Wilkes County, Wilkesboro, and North Wilkesboro, NC. Wilkes County, NC

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gowilkes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 23.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gowilkes.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,000 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gowilkes.com

93 ms

www.gowilkes.com

618 ms

styles_uni.css

687 ms

javascript.js

767 ms

advertisement.js

585 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Gowilkes.com, 24% (8 requests) were made to Images.gonc.co and 15% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.5 sec) relates to the external source T2.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.7 kB (54%)

Content Size

557.2 kB

After Optimization

256.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gowilkes.com main page is 557.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 385.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 106.2 kB

  • Original 121.5 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.4 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 106.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 36.6 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. Go Wilkes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 183.6 kB

  • Original 385.6 kB
  • After minification 383.1 kB
  • After compression 202.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 183.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Gowilkes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (29%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Wilkes. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gowilkes.com

gowilkes.com

93 ms

www.gowilkes.com

www.gowilkes.com

618 ms

styles_uni.css

styles_uni.css

687 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

767 ms

advertisement.js

advertisement.js

585 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

644 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

788 ms

styles_high.css

styles_high.css

207 ms

bkn.png

bkn.png

4172 ms

images

images

4595 ms

19970033.gif

19970033.gif

4422 ms

images

images

8417 ms

images

images

8495 ms

skyranger_picture_150.jpg

skyranger_picture_150.jpg

3970 ms

bushman_easy-sweet-potato-casserole.jpg

bushman_easy-sweet-potato-casserole.jpg

3970 ms

2.png

2.png

4390 ms

dot.png

dot.png

4390 ms

4.png

4.png

4390 ms

5.png

5.png

4387 ms

menus.png

menus.png

4391 ms

thumb_wilkes.png

thumb_wilkes.png

8415 ms

space-bugs.jpg

space-bugs.jpg

8414 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

4449 ms

format.js

format.js

4850 ms

ca-pub-7620071422727774.js

ca-pub-7620071422727774.js

1569 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

5476 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

2001 ms

collect

collect

4326 ms

ads

ads

2007 ms

osd.js

osd.js

1201 ms

teads-format.min.js

teads-format.min.js

2241 ms

ads

ads

2295 ms

collect

collect

2072 ms

ads

ads

403 ms

Accessibility Review

gowilkes.com accessibility score

59

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

gowilkes.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gowilkes.com SEO score

57

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gowilkes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Gowilkes.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gowilkes.com

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