Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

philly.newspapers.com

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News archive from 1794-2023 - The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News Archive

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

477 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

philly.newspapers.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philly.newspapers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 477 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

philly.newspapers.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

philly.newspapers.com

477 ms

base.css

8 ms

search.css

36 ms

clippings.css

52 ms

papers.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Philly.newspapers.com, 9% (9 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Wrapper.philly.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Philly.newspapers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (54%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

838.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Philly.newspapers.com main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 847.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 77.1 kB
  • After minification 76.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 56.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 430.5 kB
  • After minification 401.5 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. Philly News Papers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 531.7 kB

  • Original 847.1 kB
  • After minification 843.8 kB
  • After compression 315.5 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 531.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 386.7 kB

  • Original 488.0 kB
  • After minification 484.9 kB
  • After compression 101.3 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. Philly.newspapers.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 386.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (69%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Philly News Papers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

philly.newspapers.com accessibility score

80

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

philly.newspapers.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

philly.newspapers.com SEO score

100

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

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 Philly.newspapers.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 Philly.newspapers.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 Philly News Papers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: