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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hickoryconventions.com

Tourist Attractions in Hickory, NC's Official Visitor's Web Site

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Hickory is the premier destination for furniture shopping in western NC & home to one of the most spacious and versatile convention centers in North Carolina.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickoryconventions.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 5.4 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

hickoryconventions.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,360 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.783

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hickoryconventions.com

51 ms

223 ms

shared.css

41 ms

font-awesome.min.css

128 ms

shared.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hickoryconventions.com, 66% (65 requests) were made to Visithickorymetro.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 333.9 kB (55%)

Content Size

612.5 kB

After Optimization

278.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hickoryconventions.com main page is 612.5 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 389.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 90.0 kB

  • Original 109.2 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 12.3 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 90.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 338 B

  • Original 103.3 kB
  • After minification 103.0 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. Hickory Conventions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 243.5 kB

  • Original 389.5 kB
  • After minification 389.4 kB
  • After compression 145.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 243.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Hickoryconventions.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (79%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hickory Conventions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

hickoryconventions.com accessibility score

91

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

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

hickoryconventions.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hickoryconventions.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hickoryconventions.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hickoryconventions.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 Hickory Conventions. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: