Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

morganton.com

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Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

855 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Morganton.com page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

morganton.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.777

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

morganton.com

87 ms

www.morganton.com

100 ms

jquery-ui-default.min.css

28 ms

ads.min.css

29 ms

ads_demo.min.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 473 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Morganton.com, 22% (106 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 5% (24 requests) were made to Widgets.digitalmediacommunications.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Mediaservices-d.openxenterprise.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (42%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Morganton.com main page is 5.6 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. 85% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 458.9 kB

  • Original 563.9 kB
  • After minification 499.7 kB
  • After compression 105.0 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 64.1 kB, which is 11% 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 458.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Morganton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 616.2 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 1.1 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 672.9 kB

  • Original 787.9 kB
  • After minification 685.9 kB
  • After compression 115.0 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. Morganton.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 672.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 272 (63%)

Requests Now

429

After Optimization

157

The browser has sent 429 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Morganton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 109 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

morganton.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

morganton.com best practices score

77

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

morganton.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Morganton.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Morganton.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

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