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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.258

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

blog.visitraleigh.com

63 ms

98 ms

6 ms

21 ms

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14 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.visitraleigh.com, 62% (52 requests) were made to Visitraleigh.com and 14% (12 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (543 ms) relates to the external source Assets.simpleviewinc.com.

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.visitraleigh.com main page is 4.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 352.6 kB

Original 396.8 kB
After minification 360.1 kB
After compression 44.2 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 352.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 294.4 kB

Original 3.7 MB
After minification 3.4 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. Blog VisitRaleigh images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

Original 208.9 kB
After minification 208.3 kB
After compression 194.8 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

Original 105.4 kB
After minification 104.8 kB
After compression 93.5 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. Blog.visitraleigh.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog VisitRaleigh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

UTF-8

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

blog.visitraleigh.com

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

visitRaleigh insider blog | Top Things to Do, Recent News & Insider Tips for Visiting Raleigh, N.C.

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

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Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

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