Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

southerncravings.com

Home - Southern Cravings

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

southerncravings.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Southern Cravings content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southerncravings.com

Welcome to Southern Cravings! We don’t do long ingredient lists or complicated instructions around here. Settle in for simple, Southern dishes and basic

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncravings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerncravings.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.southerncravings.com

1194 ms

southern-cravings.js

50 ms

js

84 ms

IO.0.7.1.js

21 ms

6a76c27036f54bb48ed9bc3294c5d172.min.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncravings.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Scripts.mediavine.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncravings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Southerncravings.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 125.1 kB
  • After minification 125.0 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 105.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Southern Cravings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Cravings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southerncravings.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

southerncravings.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southerncravings.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 Southerncravings.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 Southerncravings.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Southern Cravings. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: