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carowinds.com

Amusement Park Charlotte, North Carolina & South Carolina | Carowinds

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

488 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carowinds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 166 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 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carowinds.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.carowinds.com

166 ms

gtm.js

148 ms

styles.css

58 ms

emergency-alert-bar-component.css

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modal.css

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Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Carowinds.com, 28% (42 requests) were made to Cdn-cloudfront.cfauthx.com and 24% (36 requests) were made to S.amazon-adsystem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Pixelg.adswizz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 209.5 kB (28%)

Content Size

754.5 kB

After Optimization

544.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carowinds.com main page is 754.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 484.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 162.2 kB

  • Original 187.4 kB
  • After minification 137.7 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 49.7 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 162.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

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Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 81.1 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. Carowinds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 484.7 kB
  • After minification 484.7 kB
  • After compression 437.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Carowinds.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (76%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carowinds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

carowinds.com SEO score

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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 Carowinds.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 Carowinds.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

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