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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 55% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

post-dispatch.com

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Breaking News | Read St. Louis, MO and Missouri breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on Missouri sports, w...

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit post-dispatch.com now to see the best up-to-date Post Dispatch content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about post-dispatch.com

Read breaking news for St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, weather, traffic, crime, sports, entertainment, politics, and more on www.stltoday.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Post-dispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

post-dispatch.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

post-dispatch.com

135 ms

www.stltoday.com

131 ms

bootstrap.min.css

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

39 ms

layout.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Post-dispatch.com, 35% (44 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 10% (13 requests) were made to Ox-d.leessp.servedbyopenx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) relates to the external source Us-u.openx.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Post-dispatch.com main page is 2.3 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 681.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 514.5 kB

  • Original 564.6 kB
  • After minification 441.3 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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 123.3 kB, which is 22% 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 514.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 626.4 kB
  • After minification 621.8 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. Post Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 363.0 kB

  • Original 681.0 kB
  • After minification 657.1 kB
  • After compression 318.0 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 363.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 332.3 kB

  • Original 415.6 kB
  • After minification 381.7 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. Post-dispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 332.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (61%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Post Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

post-dispatch.com

post-dispatch.com

135 ms

www.stltoday.com

www.stltoday.com

131 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

75 ms

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39 ms

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41 ms

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93 ms

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108 ms

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Accessibility Review

post-dispatch.com accessibility score

83

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

post-dispatch.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

post-dispatch.com SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Post-dispatch.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 Post-dispatch.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

post-dispatch.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Post Dispatch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: