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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

gazette.com

Colorado Springs Gazette - Local news, sports, business, military

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

759 ms

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About Website

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

Read the latest headlines out of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region, including breaking news, sports, business and military coverage

Visit gazette.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Gazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gazette.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value68.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Gazette.com, 77% (113 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 746.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gazette.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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 999.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 625.4 kB

  • Original 704.9 kB
  • After minification 704.6 kB
  • After compression 79.4 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. 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 625.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 999.1 kB
  • After minification 999.1 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. Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

  • Original 480.5 kB
  • After minification 479.0 kB
  • After compression 372.4 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 108.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 67.5 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Gazette.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (25%)

Requests Now

140

After Optimization

105

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 140 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gazette.com accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

gazette.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gazette.com SEO score

77

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

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 Gazette.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 Gazette.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

gazette.com

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