Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

tasteofthesouth.org

Taste of the South | Annual Gala Benefitting Southern Based Charities

Page Load Speed

19.6 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

17.1 sec

tasteofthesouth.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to tasteofthesouth.org homepage info - get ready to check Taste Of The South best content right away, or after learning these important things about tasteofthesouth.org

Sharing a Taste of the South with Washington D.C. and giving something back to states we will always call home! Join us for our annual gala!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tasteofthesouth.org page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 19.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tasteofthesouth.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tasteofthesouth.org

82 ms

tasteofthesouth.org

183 ms

abb1699e97.js

255 ms

hfv8fol.js

221 ms

style.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Tasteofthesouth.org, 7% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Tasteofthesouth.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 962.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

7.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Tasteofthesouth.org main page is 8.7 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 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 99.1 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. 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 88.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 867.5 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Taste Of The South images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 194.4 kB
  • After minification 194.4 kB
  • After compression 191.2 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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. Tasteofthesouth.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (43%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taste Of The South. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tasteofthesouth.org accessibility score

73

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

tasteofthesouth.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tasteofthesouth.org SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Tasteofthesouth.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 Tasteofthesouth.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 data is detected on the main page of Taste Of The South. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: