Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theislandpacket.com

Hilton Head Breaking News & Crime | Hilton Head Island Packet

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

theislandpacket.com screenshot

About Website

Visit theislandpacket.com now to see the best up-to-date The Island Packet content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theislandpacket.com

Read today's latest news, headlines and updates from Hilton Head, South Carolina and the Lowcountry. Stay up to date on crime, politics, local business and the economy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theislandpacket.com page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theislandpacket.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theislandpacket.com

187 ms

www.theislandpacket.com

217 ms

www.islandpacket.com

75 ms

islandpacketcore.js

42 ms

vendor.bundle-e8bf89b42a8198ff411c.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theislandpacket.com, 64% (27 requests) were made to Islandpacket.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Charlotteobserver.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (347 ms) relates to the external source Miamiherald.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 kB (1%)

Content Size

351.7 kB

After Optimization

349.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Theislandpacket.com main page is 351.7 kB. 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 350.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 350.9 kB
  • After minification 348.8 kB

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. The Island Packet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 834 B
  • After minification 834 B
  • After compression 783 B

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 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Island Packet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theislandpacket.com accessibility score

84

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

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

theislandpacket.com best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theislandpacket.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theislandpacket.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Theislandpacket.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Island Packet. 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: