Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

syracuse.com

Syracuse NY Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Syracuse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

syracuse.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.414

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

syracuse.com

14 ms

www.syracuse.com

391 ms

default.css

21 ms

default.css

24 ms

style.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Syracuse.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to P952.syracuse.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) relates to the external source Experience.tinypass.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 571.9 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Syracuse.com main page is 1.7 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. 85% 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 741.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 401.8 kB

  • Original 498.6 kB
  • After minification 497.8 kB
  • After compression 96.8 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 401.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 441.6 kB
  • After minification 440.3 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. Syracuse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

  • Original 741.9 kB
  • After minification 741.8 kB
  • After compression 573.2 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 168.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (43%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Syracuse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

syracuse.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

syracuse.com 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

syracuse.com SEO score

91

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 Syracuse.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 Syracuse.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 data is detected on the main page of Syracuse. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: