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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

locustnc.com

City of Locust, North Carolina – A City With a Soul

Page Load Speed

541 ms in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

307 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

locustnc.com screenshot

About Website

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Official Municipal site. Locust, NC is one of the fastest growing cities in the county and in the state of North Carolina. Our rural setting offers a broad range of housing and great schools. The clos...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Locustnc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 466 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

locustnc.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.107

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locustnc.com

75 ms

locustnc.com

20 ms

style.css

5 ms

style.min.css

8 ms

styles.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Locustnc.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (135 ms) relates to the external source 39d.41b.myftpupload.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Locustnc.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 78.4 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. 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 64.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Locust Nc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 101.5 kB
  • After minification 101.5 kB
  • After compression 65.1 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 36.4 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Locustnc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (44%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Locust Nc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

locustnc.com

locustnc.com

75 ms

locustnc.com

locustnc.com

20 ms

style.css

style.css

5 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

8 ms

styles.css

styles.css

13 ms

css

css

33 ms

style.css

style.css

15 ms

style.css

style.css

13 ms

script.js

script.js

15 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

13 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

16 ms

responsive-menu.js

responsive-menu.js

17 ms

element.js

element.js

61 ms

index.js

index.js

18 ms

index.js

index.js

16 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

17 ms

ga.js

ga.js

69 ms

cityoflocustaerial1.jpg

cityoflocustaerial1.jpg

22 ms

navbar_bg.png

navbar_bg.png

135 ms

Locust-A-City-With-a-Soul.png

Locust-A-City-With-a-Soul.png

56 ms

symbol-defs.svg

symbol-defs.svg

54 ms

locustpark3-1140x450.jpg

locustpark3-1140x450.jpg

77 ms

locustsummerconcerts2-1140x450.jpg

locustsummerconcerts2-1140x450.jpg

56 ms

crutchfieldcampus-1140x450.jpg

crutchfieldcampus-1140x450.jpg

77 ms

locustpark2.jpg

locustpark2.jpg

76 ms

flowers-1140x450.jpg

flowers-1140x450.jpg

77 ms

locustpark-1140x450.jpg

locustpark-1140x450.jpg

82 ms

governmentcenter-1140x450.jpg

governmentcenter-1140x450.jpg

81 ms

Pay-Utility-Bill.png

Pay-Utility-Bill.png

80 ms

Council-Meeting-Minutes.png

Council-Meeting-Minutes.png

80 ms

Business-Directory.png

Business-Directory.png

79 ms

homepage2014_18.png

homepage2014_18.png

79 ms

locust_lowdown_03.png

locust_lowdown_03.png

80 ms

all.js

all.js

73 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHA.ttf

29 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

59 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

45 ms

bg_direction_nav.png

bg_direction_nav.png

10 ms

all.js

all.js

9 ms

Accessibility Review

locustnc.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

locustnc.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

locustnc.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Locustnc.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 Locustnc.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

locustnc.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Locust Nc. 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: