Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

statesmanjournal.com

Statesman Journal: Salem news, sports, entertainment. Serving Salem, Oregon.

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

903 ms

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About Website

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StatesmanJournal.com is the home page of Salem, Oregon, with in-depth and updated local news, sports, things to do, travel and opinions. Stay informed with Willamette Valley news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Statesmanjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

statesmanjournal.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

statesmanjournal.com

128 ms

www.statesmanjournal.com

21 ms

loader.js

14 ms

main_modern.min.css

69 ms

gpt.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 248 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Statesmanjournal.com, 72% (178 requests) were made to Gannett-cdn.com and 3% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (53%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Statesmanjournal.com main page is 8.2 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 882.2 kB

  • Original 987.5 kB
  • After minification 984.5 kB
  • After compression 105.3 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. 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 882.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 272.2 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Statesman Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB
  • After compression 763.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 272.9 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. Statesmanjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (17%)

Requests Now

239

After Optimization

198

The browser has sent 239 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Statesman Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

statesmanjournal.com accessibility score

79

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

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

statesmanjournal.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

statesmanjournal.com SEO score

85

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Statesmanjournal.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 Statesmanjournal.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 Statesman Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: