Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

carsonnow.org

Carson City Nevada News - Carson Now | Your one stop for Carson City news

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

359 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

carsonnow.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carsonnow.org page load time and found that the first response time was 359 ms and then it took 3.5 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

carsonnow.org performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carsonnow.org

359 ms

css_07b9d9b3c1b45bb69c94c392d68d8b7b_3.css

139 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

js_ba8f6c2ae9c9e4f74dad0fe3a75402fc_0.js

213 ms

serve.php

363 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Carsonnow.org, 37% (54 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (9 requests) were made to My.nowads.biz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Carsonnow.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 428.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Carsonnow.org main page is 3.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 122.0 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 98.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Carson Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 192.1 kB

  • Original 297.1 kB
  • After minification 277.5 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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 192.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. Carsonnow.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (19%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

117

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carson Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

carsonnow.org accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

carsonnow.org best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

carsonnow.org SEO score

71

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

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 Carsonnow.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 Carsonnow.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carson Now. 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: