Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

journal-news.net

journal-news.net

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Journal-news.net page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 6 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

journal-news.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

journal-news.net

196 ms

_defaults.css

117 ms

_layout_v2.css

118 ms

google_service.js

41 ms

embed.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 339 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Journal-news.net, 9% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (17 requests) were made to Secure.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Stat8.flashtalking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Journal-news.net main page is 2.9 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 116.9 kB
  • After minification 112.8 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 91.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 107.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 920.5 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. Journal News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 529.0 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 1.2 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Journal-news.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 196 (62%)

Requests Now

316

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 316 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Journal 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 89 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

journal-news.net accessibility score

94

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-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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

journal-news.net SEO score

82

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Journal-news.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Journal-news.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Journal News. 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: