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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

echopress.com

Alexandria Echo Press | Alexandria, Minnesota

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Echo Press content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about echopress.com

Alexandria Echo Press is your #1 source for news, weather, and sports around Alexandria and throughout Minnesota.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Echopress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 2.5 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

echopress.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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25 ms

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29 ms

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121 ms

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106 ms

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99 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Echopress.com, 26% (19 requests) were made to Cdn.forumcomm.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to D1x4rwm1kh8pnu.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (344 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.confiant-integrations.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 885.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Echopress.com main page is 3.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 461.4 kB

  • Original 566.1 kB
  • After minification 506.3 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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 59.8 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 461.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 905.0 kB
  • After minification 898.3 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. Echo Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 415.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 415.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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. Echopress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (69%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Echo Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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25 ms

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29 ms

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121 ms

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106 ms

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99 ms

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90 ms

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141 ms

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101 ms

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113 ms

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176 ms

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104 ms

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56 ms

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51 ms

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50 ms

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Accessibility Review

echopress.com accessibility score

82

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

echopress.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

echopress.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Echopress.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 Echopress.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

echopress.com

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