Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

mcdowellnc.org

Blue Ridge Traveler | Things to Do | Official Travel Guide to the Blue Ridge Mountains & NC Foothills | Blue Ridge Traveler

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

857 ms

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About Website

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Plan your adventure to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Find things to do, events, & hotels. Get outdoors & explore over 70,000 acres in the Pisgah National Forest!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcdowellnc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mcdowellnc.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcdowellnc.org

49 ms

blueridgetravelers.com

63 ms

www.destinationmcdowell.com

607 ms

css

35 ms

upstairs2-45e7c62e.945ad2d73477.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mcdowellnc.org, 48% (30 requests) were made to Blueridgetraveler.com and 40% (25 requests) were made to Destinationmcdowell.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (607 ms) relates to the external source Destinationmcdowell.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 350.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

7.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Mcdowellnc.org main page is 8.0 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. 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. Images take 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 122.0 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 17.5 kB, which is 14% 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 102.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 246.7 kB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Mcdowell NC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 218.0 kB
  • After minification 218.0 kB
  • After compression 217.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (32%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mcdowell NC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mcdowellnc.org accessibility score

90

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

mcdowellnc.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

mcdowellnc.org SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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