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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

columbian.com

The Columbian - Latest News from Vancouver, Washington & Clark County WA - The Columbian

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

270 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

616 ms

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About Website

Visit columbian.com now to see the best up-to-date Columbian content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about columbian.com

Clark County Washington's source for local breaking news, business, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, advertising, real estate, obituaries, classifieds, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbian.com page load time and found that the first response time was 270 ms and then it took 2.7 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

columbian.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value44,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

columbian.com

270 ms

bootstrap.css

261 ms

base.css

176 ms

jasny-bootstrap.min.css

192 ms

homepage.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Columbian.com, 5% (7 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 5% (7 requests) were made to 360.columbian.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Columbian.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (26%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Columbian.com main page is 6.6 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. 75% 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 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 137.0 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.6 kB, which is 13% 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 128.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 474.7 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Columbian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 750.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 360.3 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 750.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 365.3 kB

  • Original 442.4 kB
  • After minification 439.5 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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. Columbian.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 365.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (50%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

columbian.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

columbian.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

columbian.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Columbian.com 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 Columbian.com 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

columbian.com

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