Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

alaskadispatch.com

Anchorage Daily News: Alaska News, Politics, Outdoors, Science and Events - Anchorage Daily News

Page Load Speed

104.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

61.6 sec

Page Rendered

41.7 sec

alaskadispatch.com screenshot

About Website

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Based in Anchorage, Anchorage Daily News offers news, features and commentary with a statewide focus.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alaskadispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 103.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alaskadispatch.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.151

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.adn.com

1356 ms

ec3b480624.css

286 ms

css

2417 ms

4835cc008f.css

735 ms

adn-theme.css

1994 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Alaskadispatch.com, 10% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (10 requests) were made to T.newsmaxfeednetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.5 sec) relates to the external source Csp.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Alaskadispatch.com main page is 3.7 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. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 352.2 kB

  • Original 411.1 kB
  • After minification 411.1 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. 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 352.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 707.2 kB
  • After minification 681.4 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. Alaska Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 689.4 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 1.0 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 715.2 kB

  • Original 886.3 kB
  • After minification 879.3 kB
  • After compression 171.1 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. Alaskadispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 715.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (71%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alaska Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alaskadispatch.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alaskadispatch.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alaskadispatch.com SEO score

76

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