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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

charlestonarea.com

CharlestonArea.com, your online guide to Charleston, South Carolina

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Charleston Area content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about charlestonarea.com

Online guide to Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Kiawah, Folly Beach and Hilton Head, South Carolina, beaches, hotels, vacations, accommodations, and restaurants

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlestonarea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charlestonarea.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,880 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charlestonarea.com

74 ms

adsbygoogle.js

110 ms

calogo.jpg

76 ms

show_ads.js

76 ms

Statement.jpg

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Charlestonarea.com, 13% (10 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 12% (9 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Weather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

974.7 kB

After Optimization

908.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Charlestonarea.com main page is 974.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 522.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 59.5 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 53.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 387.6 kB
  • After minification 377.0 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. Charleston Area images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 522.8 kB
  • After minification 522.8 kB
  • After compression 520.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charleston Area. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

charlestonarea.com accessibility score

77

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

charlestonarea.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

charlestonarea.com SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Charlestonarea.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 Charlestonarea.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Charleston Area. 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: