Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

lvb.com

Lehigh Valley Business | Greater Lehigh Valley's source for business news

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

428 ms

Page Rendered

544 ms

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About Website

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The Greater Lehigh Valley's most trusted source of business news including banking & finance, health care, transportation, manufacturing, and real estate.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lvb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 972 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lvb.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lvb.com

97 ms

res-style.css

12 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

4 ms

respond.min.js

5 ms

base.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Lvb.com, 21% (15 requests) were made to 121-jpads.newscyclecloud.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (134 ms) belongs to the original domain Lvb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

943.5 kB

After Optimization

733.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Lvb.com main page is 943.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 702.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 10.6 kB, which is 19% 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 47.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 702.8 kB
  • After minification 656.4 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. Lvb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 125.1 kB
  • After minification 123.7 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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 69.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Lvb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (24%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lvb. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lvb.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

lvb.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lvb.com SEO score

79

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Lvb.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 Lvb.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 Lvb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: