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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

grandstrandmag.com

Myrtle Beach SC- Visitors and Locals Official Guide | Grand Strand Magazine

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit grandstrandmag.com now to see the best up-to-date Grand Strand Mag content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about grandstrandmag.com

Myrtle Beach SC: Grand Strand Magazine is the premier magazine featuring topics for visitors and locals, on food, style, culture and fine living. The official visitors guide for the best of Myrtle Bea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grandstrandmag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 656 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grandstrandmag.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Grandstrandmag.com, 17% (22 requests) were made to Gulfstreamcommunications.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Grandstrandmag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (7%)

Content Size

14.8 MB

After Optimization

13.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Grandstrandmag.com main page is 14.8 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 14.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 14.7 kB, which is 13% 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 97.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 942.8 kB

  • Original 14.3 MB
  • After minification 13.4 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. Grand Strand Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 306.6 kB
  • After minification 306.6 kB
  • After compression 283.7 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 133 B

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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. Grandstrandmag.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (34%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grand Strand Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

grandstrandmag.com accessibility score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

grandstrandmag.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

grandstrandmag.com SEO score

90

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 Grandstrandmag.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 Grandstrandmag.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

grandstrandmag.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Grand Strand Mag. 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: