Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

duluthnews.com

Duluth News Tribune

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

589 ms

duluthnews.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Duluthnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

duluthnews.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

duluthnews.com

112 ms

www.duluthnewstribune.com

236 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

57 ms

css_vZ_wrMQ9Og-YPPxa1q4us3N7DsZMJa-14jShHgRoRNo.css

59 ms

css_drAaZvIujzE0WQHPZOt8-T119XbC59ClvGgsZR7SC8M.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 465 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Duluthnews.com, 22% (102 requests) were made to Duluthnewstribune.com and 6% (26 requests) were made to Widgets.fccinteractive.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) relates to the external source Areavoices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (30%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Duluthnews.com main page is 7.6 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. 85% 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 291.7 kB

  • Original 364.1 kB
  • After minification 357.7 kB
  • After compression 72.3 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 291.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 349.8 kB

  • Original 4.7 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. Duluth News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 778.9 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 1.4 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 266.9 kB

  • Original 342.9 kB
  • After minification 340.2 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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. Duluthnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 266.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 238 (59%)

Requests Now

405

After Optimization

167

The browser has sent 405 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Duluth News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 81 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

duluthnews.com accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

duluthnews.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

duluthnews.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Duluthnews.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 Duluthnews.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

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