Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

thenownews.com

Tri-Cities Local News - Tri-City News

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Your best source for Tri-Cities news, sports, business, community news and events, entertainment, lifestyles, obituaries, and opinion coverage.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenownews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thenownews.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.tricitynews.com

183 ms

gmgcss-r3289.min.css

123 ms

email-article.css

51 ms

responsive.css

65 ms

responsive-overrides.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 347 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thenownews.com, 10% (33 requests) were made to Tricitynews.com and 8% (29 requests) were made to Ds.serving-sys.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Btn.weather.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (44%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Thenownews.com main page is 4.9 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 350.7 kB

  • Original 439.2 kB
  • After minification 366.3 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 72.8 kB, which is 17% 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 350.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 121.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Thenow News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 541.3 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 1.2 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 418.1 kB

  • Original 521.8 kB
  • After minification 506.8 kB
  • After compression 103.8 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. Thenownews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 418.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 161 (53%)

Requests Now

303

After Optimization

142

The browser has sent 303 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thenow News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thenownews.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

thenownews.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

thenownews.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Thenownews.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 Thenownews.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 description is not detected on the main page of Thenow News. 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: