Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

casperstartribune.net

Casper Star-Tribune | Breaking News | Get the latest news, weather and sports from Casper Star Tribune.

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

875 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Casperstartribune.net page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 2.9 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

casperstartribune.net performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trib.com

108 ms

bootstrap.min.css

89 ms

font-awesome.min.css

68 ms

layout.css

77 ms

theme-basic.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Casperstartribune.net, 9% (13 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net and 8% (11 requests) were made to Ox-d.leessp.servedbyopenx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.leessp.servedbyopenx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (28%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Casperstartribune.net main page is 5.2 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. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 384.7 kB

  • Original 425.2 kB
  • After minification 324.8 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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 100.4 kB, which is 24% 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 384.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Casper Star Tribune images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 572.4 kB

  • Original 853.6 kB
  • After minification 829.5 kB
  • After compression 281.3 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 572.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 330.7 kB

  • Original 413.5 kB
  • After minification 380.5 kB
  • After compression 82.9 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. Casperstartribune.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 330.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (60%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Casper Star Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

casperstartribune.net accessibility score

91

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

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

casperstartribune.net 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

SEO Factors

casperstartribune.net SEO score

90

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 Casperstartribune.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 Casperstartribune.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Casper Star Tribune. 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: