Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

atowndailynews.com

A-Town Daily News | Atascadero news & entertainment

Page Load Speed

513 ms in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

232 ms

Page Rendered

56 ms

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About Website

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A-Town Daily News is the leading local source of Atascadero news and information. Read about breaking news, current events, politics, crime, sports.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Atowndailynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 288 ms 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

atowndailynews.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value2.77

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

atowndailynews.com

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Atowndailynews.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (225 ms) belongs to the original domain Atowndailynews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Atowndailynews.com main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 102 B
  • After minification 101 B
  • After compression 92 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. A Town Daily News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 205.2 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 202.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 71.2 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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. Atowndailynews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

atowndailynews.com accessibility score

63

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

atowndailynews.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

atowndailynews.com SEO score

64

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

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 Atowndailynews.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 Atowndailynews.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 A Town Daily 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: