Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

news.opb.org

Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

864 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.opb.org page load time and found that the first response time was 103 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 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.opb.org performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.opb.org

103 ms

65 ms

reset.css

40 ms

app.css

98 ms

style2015.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.opb.org, 73% (63 requests) were made to Opb.org and 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) relates to the external source Opb.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (68%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

748.7 kB

In fact, the total size of News.opb.org 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 100.2 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 118.1 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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 15.4 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 100.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 198.2 kB
  • After minification 197.1 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. News OPB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 992.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 461.3 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 992.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 495.3 kB

  • Original 552.3 kB
  • After minification 349.3 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. News.opb.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 495.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (71%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News OPB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.opb.org accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

news.opb.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

news.opb.org SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.opb.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that News.opb.org 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 News OPB. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: