Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

scotiavillage.org

Scotia Village | Continuing Care Retirement Community | NC

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

807 ms

Page Rendered

756 ms

scotiavillage.org screenshot

About Website

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An oasis in the Sandhills region of North Carolina, Scotia Village is a premier Life Plan Community (LPC).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scotiavillage.org page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scotiavillage.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scotiavillage.org

49 ms

scotia-village

137 ms

61 ms

css2

35 ms

all.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scotiavillage.org, 64% (35 requests) were made to Brightspire.org and 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) relates to the external source Brightspire.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Scotiavillage.org main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 30.2 kB, which is 44% 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 58.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 89.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Scotia Village images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 185.1 kB
  • After minification 152.2 kB
  • After compression 85.3 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 99.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 86.2 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Scotiavillage.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (45%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scotia Village. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scotiavillage.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scotiavillage.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

scotiavillage.org SEO score

98

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

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 Scotiavillage.org 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 Scotiavillage.org 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scotia Village. 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: