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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

communityadvocate.com

Community Advocate | Central MA Local Newspaper & Advertising | Your Trusted Local Newspaper for Massachusetts News

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

497 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Communityadvocate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

communityadvocate.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

communityadvocate.com

1215 ms

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2751 ms

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44 ms

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310 ms

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46 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (100 requests) were addressed to the original Communityadvocate.com, 11% (17 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Communityadvocate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 698.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Communityadvocate.com main page is 3.0 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 183.4 kB

  • Original 210.7 kB
  • After minification 179.0 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 31.7 kB, which is 15% 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 183.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 122.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Community Advocate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 335.3 kB

  • Original 459.6 kB
  • After minification 401.1 kB
  • After compression 124.3 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 335.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. Communityadvocate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (38%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Community Advocate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

communityadvocate.com accessibility score

79

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

communityadvocate.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

communityadvocate.com SEO score

99

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

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 Communityadvocate.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 Communityadvocate.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

communityadvocate.com

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