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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hometownpressia.com

Hometown Press, Sully, Iowa - News for Sully, Lynnville, & beyond

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hometownpressia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 2.9 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

hometownpressia.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hometownpressia.com

120 ms

www.hometownpressia.com

1226 ms

bootstrap.css

30 ms

responsive.css

27 ms

prettyPhoto.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Hometownpressia.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Hometownpressia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

934.4 kB

After Optimization

788.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hometownpressia.com main page is 934.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 407.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 119.3 kB
  • After minification 116.8 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 94.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 407.0 kB
  • After minification 398.5 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. Hometown Press Ia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 304.6 kB
  • After minification 304.6 kB
  • After compression 269.8 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 34.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 102.8 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Hometownpressia.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (74%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hometown Press Ia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hometownpressia.com

hometownpressia.com

120 ms

www.hometownpressia.com

www.hometownpressia.com

1226 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

30 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

27 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

42 ms

camera.css

camera.css

26 ms

style.css

style.css

34 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

37 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

36 ms

owl.theme.css

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36 ms

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36 ms

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37 ms

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45 ms

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style.css

47 ms

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47 ms

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frontend.css

63 ms

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48 ms

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77 ms

main-style.css

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59 ms

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magnific-popup.css

57 ms

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62 ms

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61 ms

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68 ms

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77 ms

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69 ms

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74 ms

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76 ms

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79 ms

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86 ms

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82 ms

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85 ms

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91 ms

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87 ms

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91 ms

swfobject.js

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95 ms

modernizr.js

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100 ms

jflickrfeed.js

jflickrfeed.js

96 ms

custom.js

custom.js

97 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

103 ms

sharethis.js

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28 ms

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87 ms

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84 ms

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89 ms

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83 ms

theme.min.css

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86 ms

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88 ms

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88 ms

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85 ms

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92 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

87 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

84 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

86 ms

cherry-plugin.js

cherry-plugin.js

88 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

91 ms

jquery.mobilemenu.js

jquery.mobilemenu.js

82 ms

style.css

style.css

77 ms

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79 ms

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95 ms

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85 ms

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81 ms

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86 ms

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75 ms

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85 ms

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83 ms

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87 ms

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83 ms

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86 ms

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81 ms

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80 ms

style.css

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37 ms

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28 ms

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Accessibility Review

hometownpressia.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hometownpressia.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hometownpressia.com SEO score

83

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

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

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 Hometownpressia.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 Hometownpressia.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

hometownpressia.com

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