Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

wilmington.net

Welcome to Wilmington NC | Wilmington North Carolina | Cape Fear | Port City

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

278 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

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About Website

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Visitor and travel information for Wilmington NC. Called the Port City, Wilmington is located between the Cape Fear river and Atlantic ocean in southeastern North Carolina

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wilmington.net page load time and found that the first response time was 278 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wilmington.net performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wilmington.net

278 ms

www.wilmington.net

572 ms

ga.js

6 ms

__utm.gif

16 ms

c_red_bg.jpg

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Wilmington.net, 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (572 ms) belongs to the original domain Wilmington.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.6 kB (56%)

Content Size

543.0 kB

After Optimization

241.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Wilmington.net main page is 543.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 459.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 20.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 530 B

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 57.3 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. Wilmington images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 280.5 kB

  • Original 459.0 kB
  • After minification 458.0 kB
  • After compression 178.6 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 280.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (31%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wilmington. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wilmington.net accessibility score

61

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

wilmington.net best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

wilmington.net SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wilmington.net 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 Wilmington.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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