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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

vawesternhighlands.com

Home - Virginia's Western HighlandsVirginia's Western Highlands | Mountain Views and Old-fashioned Charm are Just Around the Bend

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

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About Website

Visit vawesternhighlands.com now to see the best up-to-date Va Western Highlands content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vawesternhighlands.com

Virginia's Western Highlands is a four-county region rich in scenic beauty, outdoor recreation and small-town charm.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vawesternhighlands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vawesternhighlands.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.369

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vawesternhighlands.com

146 ms

vawesternhighlands.com

9065 ms

style.min.css

58 ms

shortcodes.css

111 ms

styles.css

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Vawesternhighlands.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Assets.simpleviewinc.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Vawesternhighlands.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vawesternhighlands.com main page is 2.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 47.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Va Western Highlands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 376.2 kB
  • After minification 376.2 kB
  • After compression 373.4 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 3.0 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Vawesternhighlands.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (44%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

53

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Va Western Highlands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vawesternhighlands.com

vawesternhighlands.com

146 ms

vawesternhighlands.com

vawesternhighlands.com

9065 ms

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style.min.css

58 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

111 ms

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styles.css

161 ms

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346 ms

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304 ms

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164 ms

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160 ms

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165 ms

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218 ms

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222 ms

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core.min.js

273 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

276 ms

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285 ms

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344 ms

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345 ms

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346 ms

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346 ms

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390 ms

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392 ms

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391 ms

effect.min.js

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399 ms

effect-blind.min.js

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444 ms

vwh.js

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447 ms

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72 ms

conversion.js

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38 ms

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138 ms

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488 ms

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488 ms

api.js

api.js

38 ms

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487 ms

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498 ms

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507 ms

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530 ms

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41 ms

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141 ms

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147 ms

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156 ms

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82 ms

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81 ms

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81 ms

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141 ms

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145 ms

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145 ms

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145 ms

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146 ms

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145 ms

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160 ms

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200 ms

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198 ms

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196 ms

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198 ms

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196 ms

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btn-explore-mobile.jpg

214 ms

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253 ms

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251 ms

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252 ms

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252 ms

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253 ms

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374 ms

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410 ms

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411 ms

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411 ms

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410 ms

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462 ms

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430 ms

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467 ms

49 ms

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446 ms

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429 ms

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430 ms

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447 ms

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53 ms

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468 ms

v2

v2

5 ms

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456 ms

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historic-treasures-bath-co-mobile.jpg

446 ms

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arts-and-culture-alleghany-highlands-mobile.jpg

445 ms

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443 ms

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458 ms

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430 ms

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433 ms

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437 ms

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436 ms

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437 ms

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450 ms

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526 ms

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435 ms

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436 ms

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437 ms

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439 ms

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459 ms

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472 ms

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439 ms

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438 ms

Accessibility Review

vawesternhighlands.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

vawesternhighlands.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

vawesternhighlands.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Vawesternhighlands.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 Vawesternhighlands.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

vawesternhighlands.com

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