Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

citynews.com

CityNews Classified Ads for US and World Cities

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing City News content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about citynews.com

classifieds,photo classified ads,jobs,employment, ads for north america and world cities

Visit citynews.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Citynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citynews.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citynews.com

1826 ms

free_classifieds.css

191 ms

show_ads.js

82 ms

analytics.js

11 ms

adsbygoogle.js

235 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Citynews.com, 18% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Citynews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.7 kB (49%)

Content Size

118.7 kB

After Optimization

60.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citynews.com main page is 118.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 52.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 23.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 851 B

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 27.5 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. City News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 971 B

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. Citynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (33%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

citynews.com accessibility score

74

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

citynews.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

citynews.com SEO score

62

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citynews.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 Citynews.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of City 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: