Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

crainscleveland.com

Cleveland Ohio News & Breaking News | Crain's Cleveland Business

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crainscleveland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crainscleveland.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.crainscleveland.com

220 ms

css,body%7B%7D

43 ms

components.css

43 ms

web.css

46 ms

photoswipe.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Crainscleveland.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (537 ms) relates to the external source Oascentral.crainscleveland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 815.8 kB (68%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

377.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Crainscleveland.com main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 808.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 7.9 kB, which is 11% 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 58.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 31.6 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, Crain S Cleveland needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 505.8 kB

  • Original 808.2 kB
  • After minification 750.9 kB
  • After compression 302.5 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 505.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 243.9 kB

  • Original 271.6 kB
  • After minification 159.6 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Crainscleveland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (81%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crain S Cleveland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crainscleveland.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

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>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

crainscleveland.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

crainscleveland.com SEO score

91

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Crainscleveland.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 Crainscleveland.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 data is detected on the main page of Crain S Cleveland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: