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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

districtsentinel.com

The District Sentinel » THE DISTRICT SENTINEL news co-op

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

529 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

561 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing District Sentinel content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about districtsentinel.com

The District Sentinel News Co-op was launched in Washington D.C. in late 2014 to cover policy from a leftist perspective. It was co-founded and is currently staffed and managed by Sam Sacks and Sam Kn...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Districtsentinel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 529 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

districtsentinel.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,250 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.28

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

districtsentinel.com

529 ms

style.min.css

136 ms

form-basic.css

210 ms

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188 ms

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245 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Districtsentinel.com, 50% (62 requests) were made to Substackcdn.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (634 ms) belongs to the original domain Districtsentinel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Districtsentinel.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.1 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 49.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 131.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, District Sentinel needs image optimization as it can save up to 131.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 206.0 kB
  • After compression 152.7 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 53.2 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 193.1 kB
  • After minification 193.0 kB
  • After compression 160.4 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. Districtsentinel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (82%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of District Sentinel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 67 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

districtsentinel.com

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Accessibility Review

districtsentinel.com accessibility score

81

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Best Practices

districtsentinel.com best practices score

83

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

districtsentinel.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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Districtsentinel.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 Districtsentinel.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

districtsentinel.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of District Sentinel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: