Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

citynews.com

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Page Load Speed

362 ms in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

123 ms

Page Rendered

219 ms

citynews.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 342 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citynews.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citynews.com

20 ms

free_classifieds.css

84 ms

citynews_classifieds.jpg

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Citynews.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (86 ms) belongs to the original domain Citynews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.9 kB (46%)

Content Size

61.1 kB

After Optimization

33.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Citynews.com main page is 61.1 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 29.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 20.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 23.7 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. Obviously, City News needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 726 B

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. Citynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

citynews.com accessibility score

59

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

citynews.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

citynews.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citynews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Citynews.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of City 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: