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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

Hiking in the Smoky Mountains - Smoky Mountain Hiking Trails & Tips

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

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About Website

Visit hikinginthesmokymountains.com now to see the best up-to-date Hiking In The Smoky Mountains content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hikinginthesmokymountains.com

With more than 850 miles of trails, hiking in the Smoky Mountains is an unforgettable experience. Learn about popular hiking trails, download maps, get tips, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hikinginthesmokymountains.com page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hikinginthesmokymountains.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.263

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

167 ms

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

169 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

extendify-utilities.css

50 ms

styles.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Hikinginthesmokymountains.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (296 ms) belongs to the original domain Hikinginthesmokymountains.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hikinginthesmokymountains.com main page is 1.8 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. 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. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 61.1 kB

  • Original 76.5 kB
  • After minification 72.3 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. 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 61.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Hiking In The Smoky Mountains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 511.9 kB
  • After minification 511.9 kB
  • After compression 499.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 162.5 kB
  • After compression 158.0 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. Hikinginthesmokymountains.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (53%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hiking In The Smoky Mountains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

167 ms

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hikinginthesmokymountains.com

169 ms

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style.min.css

22 ms

extendify-utilities.css

extendify-utilities.css

50 ms

styles.css

styles.css

33 ms

plugin.css

plugin.css

91 ms

dashicons.min.css

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35 ms

lib.css

lib.css

52 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

shortcodes.css

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85 ms

js_composer.min.css

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90 ms

irp-style.css

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84 ms

js

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122 ms

jquery.min.js

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84 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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134 ms

plugin.js

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139 ms

rbtools.min.js

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138 ms

rs6.min.js

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136 ms

simple-likes-public.js

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138 ms

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29 ms

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283 ms

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131 ms

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146 ms

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146 ms

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172 ms

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173 ms

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172 ms

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175 ms

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249 ms

gtm.js

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134 ms

logo.png

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123 ms

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163 ms

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163 ms

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162 ms

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142 ms

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141 ms

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160 ms

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159 ms

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162 ms

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181 ms

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185 ms

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181 ms

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182 ms

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180 ms

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182 ms

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192 ms

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190 ms

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183 ms

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190 ms

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191 ms

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195 ms

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197 ms

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222 ms

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221 ms

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57 ms

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296 ms

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69 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

collect

collect

199 ms

Accessibility Review

hikinginthesmokymountains.com accessibility score

86

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

hikinginthesmokymountains.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

hikinginthesmokymountains.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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Hikinginthesmokymountains.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 Hikinginthesmokymountains.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

hikinginthesmokymountains.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hiking In The Smoky Mountains. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: