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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

news957.com

Breaking News | Top Local Stories | CityNews Halifax

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

437 ms

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About Website

Visit news957.com now to see the best up-to-date News 957 content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about news957.com

Local breaking news, with live updates on traffic and weather. National, business, real estate, lifestyle and politics. CityNews, Everywhere.

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Key Findings

We analyzed News957.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news957.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news957.com

79 ms

www.news957.com

67 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

64 ms

13 ms

jquery.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original News957.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (373 ms) relates to the external source As.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (58%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

802.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News957.com main page is 1.9 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. 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. CSS take 833.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 128.7 kB

  • Original 152.4 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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 17.0 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 128.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 361.3 kB
  • After minification 314.0 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. Obviously, News 957 needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 383.6 kB

  • Original 565.9 kB
  • After minification 564.8 kB
  • After compression 182.3 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 383.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 551.6 kB

  • Original 833.8 kB
  • After minification 829.8 kB
  • After compression 282.3 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. News957.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 551.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (72%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 957. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

news957.com

news957.com

79 ms

www.news957.com

www.news957.com

67 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

64 ms

13 ms

jquery.js

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32 ms

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31 ms

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9 ms

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9 ms

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64 ms

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66 ms

all-in-one-styles.css

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71 ms

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38 ms

webfont.js

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67 ms

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ga.js

61 ms

wrapper.js

wrapper.js

55 ms

nlt2htz-i.css

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51 ms

en-US

en-US

91 ms

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957_hederlogo-wide.png

87 ms

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95 ms

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135 ms

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86 ms

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app_img.png

87 ms

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mail_icon.png

87 ms

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87 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

139 ms

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112 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

search.png

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68 ms

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66 ms

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68 ms

advertisement.png

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65 ms

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66 ms

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66 ms

css

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66 ms

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65 ms

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63 ms

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51 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

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99 ms

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67 ms

container.html

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35 ms

ads

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253 ms

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140 ms

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105 ms

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94 ms

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19 ms

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25 ms

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78 ms

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42 ms

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39 ms

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39 ms

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13 ms

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26 ms

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82 ms

casaleJTag.js

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89 ms

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123 ms

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138 ms

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140 ms

moatad.js

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60 ms

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104 ms

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108 ms

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51 ms

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285 ms

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373 ms

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blank.gif

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138 ms

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126 ms

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33 ms

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114 ms

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72 ms

lidar.js

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Accessibility Review

news957.com accessibility score

87

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

Best Practices

news957.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news957.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 News957.com 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 News957.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

news957.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News 957. 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: