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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

baltimorenews.net

All the News from Baltimore, MD: Baltimore News.Net

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Baltimore News content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about baltimorenews.net

Continuously updating Baltimore news, weather, global news, and business headlines. provides access to local newspapers such as The Baltimore Sun, official city and municipality sites, and a map of ba...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baltimorenews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 30 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

baltimorenews.net performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,620 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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30 ms

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658 ms

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72 ms

red_style.css

77 ms

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48 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Baltimorenews.net, 38% (36 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Baltimorenews.net main page is 1.4 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 722.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 14.4 kB, which is 20% 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 60.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 722.3 kB
  • After minification 701.3 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. Baltimore News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 506.5 kB
  • After minification 506.5 kB
  • After compression 429.4 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 77.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 381 B

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 75.5 kB
  • After compression 75.1 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. Baltimorenews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (27%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baltimore News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

baltimorenews.net accessibility score

50

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

baltimorenews.net SEO score

86

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

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

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 Baltimorenews.net 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 Baltimorenews.net 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

baltimorenews.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Baltimore News. 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: