Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

hour-media.com

HOUR Detroit Magazine | Best Regional Events, Restaurants & Resources

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1000 ms

hour-media.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing HOUR Media content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hour-media.com

Hour Detroit Magazine brings you stories of regional interest along with the best restaurants, clubs, events and useful resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hour-media.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hour-media.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hour-media.com

45 ms

www.hourdetroit.com

160 ms

twemoji.js

175 ms

wp-emoji.js

147 ms

common-skeleton.min.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 233 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hour-media.com, 63% (147 requests) were made to Cdn.hourdetroit.com and 5% (12 requests) were made to Partners.hourmediagroup.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Ads.empowerlocal.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (19%)

Content Size

19.2 MB

After Optimization

15.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Hour-media.com main page is 19.2 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. Images take 16.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 460.0 kB

  • Original 527.1 kB
  • After minification 524.6 kB
  • After compression 67.1 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 460.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 16.6 MB
  • After minification 13.6 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, HOUR Media needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.0 MB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 157.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 138.8 kB

  • Original 504.5 kB
  • After minification 504.3 kB
  • After compression 365.8 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. Hour-media.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 138.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 123 (55%)

Requests Now

222

After Optimization

99

The browser has sent 222 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HOUR Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 88 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hour-media.com accessibility score

66

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

hour-media.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hour-media.com SEO score

76

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 Hour-media.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 Hour-media.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 HOUR Media. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: