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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

visitsmokies.org

North Carolina Smoky Mountains | Official Travel Site | Free Guide

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visitsmokies.org page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visitsmokies.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitsmokies.org

46 ms

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61 ms

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22 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original Visitsmokies.org, 10% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (529 ms) belongs to the original domain Visitsmokies.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

14.0 MB

After Optimization

13.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visitsmokies.org main page is 14.0 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 13.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 211.4 kB

  • Original 247.1 kB
  • After minification 237.2 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 211.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 916 B

  • Original 13.0 MB
  • After minification 13.0 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. Visitsmokies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 519.0 kB
  • After minification 519.0 kB
  • After compression 454.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 64.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 225.5 kB
  • After minification 225.5 kB
  • After compression 206.1 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. Visitsmokies.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (66%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visitsmokies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

visitsmokies.org accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

visitsmokies.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

visitsmokies.org SEO score

84

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

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 Visitsmokies.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 Visitsmokies.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

visitsmokies.org

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