Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

heraldglobe.com

Herald Globe: Breaking International News Site

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heraldglobe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 2.8 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

heraldglobe.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,320 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.323

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heraldglobe.com

62 ms

www.heraldglobe.com

67 ms

foundation.min.css

51 ms

white_style.css

38 ms

jquery.min.js

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Heraldglobe.com, 24% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 16% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.2 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Heraldglobe.com main page is 2.1 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 114.7 kB

  • Original 164.7 kB
  • After minification 145.8 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.0 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 114.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Herald Globe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 382.1 kB
  • After minification 382.1 kB
  • After compression 163.5 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 218.6 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 323.4 kB

  • Original 387.1 kB
  • After minification 386.4 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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. Heraldglobe.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (35%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald Globe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

heraldglobe.com accessibility score

54

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

SEO Factors

heraldglobe.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Heraldglobe.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 Heraldglobe.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 Herald Globe. 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: