Access houstonherald.newspapers.com. Historical Newspapers from the 1700's-2000s

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,000 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

houstonherald.newspapers.com

29 ms

cf.errors.css

5 ms

browser-bar.png

7 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Houstonherald.newspapers.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (29 ms) belongs to the original domain Houstonherald.newspapers.com.

Content Size

12.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Houstonherald.newspapers.com main page is 12.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 4.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

Original 4.5 kB
After minification 4.0 kB
After compression 1.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 474 B, which is 11% 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 2.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

Original 3.9 kB
After minification 3.9 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. Houstonherald Newspapers images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75 B

Original 4.5 kB
After minification 4.5 kB
After compression 4.4 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. Houstonherald.newspapers.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houstonherald Newspapers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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.

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Houstonherald.newspapers.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 Houstonherald.newspapers.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 Houstonherald Newspapers. 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: