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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

caltimes.org

Cal Times - The Cal Times student news is a publication of the Student Association Inc. at California University of Pennsylvania

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

476 ms

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About Website

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The Cal Times student news is a publication of the Student Association Inc. at California University of Pennsylvania

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caltimes.org page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caltimes.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value62.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,040 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caltimes.org

66 ms

www.caltimes.org

468 ms

dashicons.min.css

32 ms

elusive.min.css

61 ms

all.min.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Caltimes.org, 5% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (479 ms) belongs to the original domain Caltimes.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 435.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

11.6 MB

After Optimization

11.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caltimes.org main page is 11.6 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. Javascripts take 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 169.5 kB

  • Original 199.2 kB
  • After minification 181.6 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 169.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 236.6 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Cal Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 7.0 MB
  • After compression 7.0 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 175.2 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 160.3 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. Caltimes.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (56%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cal Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

caltimes.org

caltimes.org

66 ms

www.caltimes.org

www.caltimes.org

468 ms

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dashicons.min.css

32 ms

elusive.min.css

elusive.min.css

61 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

67 ms

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foundation-icons.min.css

72 ms

extra.min.css

extra.min.css

73 ms

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74 ms

justifiedGallery.min.css

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81 ms

flickrJustifiedGalleryWPPlugin.css

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81 ms

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89 ms

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95 ms

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91 ms

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102 ms

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main.css

95 ms

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121 ms

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113 ms

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126 ms

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110 ms

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141 ms

all.min.css

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45 ms

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56 ms

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74 ms

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159 ms

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129 ms

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90 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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176 ms

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177 ms

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175 ms

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177 ms

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179 ms

supersubs.js

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190 ms

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180 ms

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184 ms

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180 ms

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186 ms

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48 ms

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73 ms

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196 ms

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167 ms

simpleParallax.min.js

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139 ms

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275 ms

flickrJustifiedGalleryWPPlugin.js

flickrJustifiedGalleryWPPlugin.js

274 ms

sno-countdown-script.js

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274 ms

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269 ms

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109 ms

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106 ms

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270 ms

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299 ms

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font

204 ms

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font

212 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

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128 ms

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186 ms

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479 ms

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242 ms

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67 ms

Accessibility Review

caltimes.org accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

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

Best Practices

caltimes.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

caltimes.org SEO score

100

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

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 Caltimes.org 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 Caltimes.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

caltimes.org

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