Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thecarolinainnblog.com

Chapel Hill Hotels Near UNC | The Carolina Inn – Official Site

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

666 ms

thecarolinainnblog.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thecarolinainnblog.com homepage info - get ready to check The Carolina Inn Blog best content right away, or after learning these important things about thecarolinainnblog.com

The Carolina Inn, a Destination Hotel, is a historic hotel located adjacent to the UNC campus at Chapel Hill. We are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and have won numerous accolades ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecarolinainnblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 3.7 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

thecarolinainnblog.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,670 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecarolinainnblog.com

183 ms

carolina-inn

538 ms

main.min.css

58 ms

property-carolina_inn.min.css

80 ms

modernizr.min.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecarolinainnblog.com, 21% (15 requests) were made to Dh-prod-cdn.azureedge.net and 10% (7 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (720 ms) relates to the external source Dh-prod-cdn.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 884.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecarolinainnblog.com main page is 2.6 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 196.7 kB

  • Original 234.6 kB
  • After minification 216.7 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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 196.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. The Carolina Inn Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 587.4 kB
  • After minification 587.2 kB
  • After compression 536.7 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 586.6 kB

  • Original 682.6 kB
  • After minification 682.2 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Thecarolinainnblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 586.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (63%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Carolina Inn Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecarolinainnblog.com accessibility score

78

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thecarolinainnblog.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecarolinainnblog.com SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thecarolinainnblog.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 Thecarolinainnblog.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 The Carolina Inn Blog. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: