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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

ellsworthamerican.com

The Ellsworth American | Hancock County Maine Breaking News & Sports - Ellsworth American The Ellsworth American | Local News & Information from The E...

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

452 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ellsworth American content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ellsworthamerican.com

News and information from Maine’s second oldest weekly newspaper. Locally owned and managed since 1851.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ellsworthamerican.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ellsworthamerican.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.246

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ellsworthamerican.com

53 ms

cloudflare.min.js

21 ms

init.js

52 ms

include.php

132 ms

minify-b4-yarppWidgetCss-97f06d308c73935c9003ab6c7f3de61d.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Ellsworthamerican.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.broadstreetads.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Ellsworthamerican.me.pw.newsmemory.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (319 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.broadstreetads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ellsworthamerican.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 108.4 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 132.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 108.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 803.3 kB
  • After minification 779.4 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. Ellsworth American images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 724.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 326.4 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 724.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 220.5 kB

  • Original 266.5 kB
  • After minification 265.3 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Ellsworthamerican.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 220.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (84%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ellsworth American. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ellsworthamerican.com accessibility score

84

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.

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

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

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

ellsworthamerican.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ellsworthamerican.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

Links are not crawlable

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 Ellsworthamerican.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 Ellsworthamerican.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 Ellsworth American. 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: