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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gds.it

Quotidiano online del Giornale di Sicilia, notizie e cronaca

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

About Website

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Giornale di Sicilia - il sito web del quotidiano che da oltre 150 anni informa con notizie dalla Sicilia e dall'Italia su cronaca, politica, economia, sport

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gds.it page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gds.it performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gds.it

149 ms

gds.it

389 ms

marfeel-sdk.es5.js

570 ms

gtm.js

89 ms

beacon.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Gds.it, 56% (19 requests) were made to Static.gds.it and 3% (1 request) were made to Sdk.mrf.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) relates to the external source Sdk.mrf.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

509.0 kB

After Optimization

322.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gds.it main page is 509.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 215.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 186.8 kB

  • Original 215.0 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 186.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 101.9 kB
  • After minification 101.9 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. Gds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 102 B

  • Original 174.2 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 174.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Gds.it has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (50%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gds.it accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gds.it 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

gds.it SEO score

92

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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    IT

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gds.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gds.it 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 Gds. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: