Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

newtimesmediagroup.com

New Times SLO - Publishing Local News and Entertainment for over 29 years in San Luis Obispo County, CA

Page Load Speed

996 ms in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

699 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

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About Website

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New Times has been publishing for over 26 years in San Luis Obispo County, CA and is the largest circulated paper in the region covering local news and entertainment each week.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newtimesmediagroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 786 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newtimesmediagroup.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newtimesmediagroup.com

210 ms

newtimesmediagroup.com

272 ms

error-bg-left.png

65 ms

IP_changed.png

129 ms

server_misconfigured.png

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Newtimesmediagroup.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) belongs to the original domain Newtimesmediagroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.7 kB (50%)

Content Size

15.4 kB

After Optimization

7.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Newtimesmediagroup.com main page is 15.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 1.3 kB, which is 23% 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 4.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 6.0 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, New Times Mediagroup needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Times Mediagroup. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

newtimesmediagroup.com accessibility score

70

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

newtimesmediagroup.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

newtimesmediagroup.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Newtimesmediagroup.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 Newtimesmediagroup.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 description is not detected on the main page of New Times Mediagroup. 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: