Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

citynow.it

CityNow · News e Cronaca a Reggio Calabria con Video e Foto

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

799 ms

citynow.it screenshot

About Website

Welcome to citynow.it homepage info - get ready to check City Now best content for Italy right away, or after learning these important things about citynow.it

Giornale online di Notizie e Cronaca con video e foto a Reggio Calabria. Sport, Politica ed Eventi in tempo reale. News su Reggina e Viola...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citynow.it page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citynow.it performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citynow.it

2906 ms

cloudflare.min.js

9 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

styles.css

8 ms

cli-style.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Citynow.it, 14% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Citynow.it.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 833.0 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Citynow.it main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 67.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. City Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 194.5 kB

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 292.0 kB
  • After compression 97.6 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 194.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 547.0 kB

  • Original 657.7 kB
  • After minification 656.2 kB
  • After compression 110.7 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. Citynow.it needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 547.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (33%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citynow.it accessibility score

83

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

citynow.it 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

citynow.it 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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    IT

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citynow.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Citynow.it 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 City Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: