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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

qctoday.com

The Quad City Times | Breaking News | | Read breaking news, sports and events from Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock Island and the the Quad Cities ...

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

617 ms

qctoday.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to qctoday.com homepage info - get ready to check Qctoday best content right away, or after learning these important things about qctoday.com

Read breaking news, sports and events from Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock Island and the the Quad Cities Region of Iowa and Illinois.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qctoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

qctoday.com performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.878

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

qctimes.com

179 ms

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53 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Qctoday.com, 15% (16 requests) were made to Qctimes.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Match.adsrvr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (553 ms) relates to the external source 14000746.fls.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.5 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

755.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Qctoday.com main page is 1.3 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. 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. Javascripts take 659.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 472.5 kB

  • Original 523.7 kB
  • After minification 430.6 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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 93.2 kB, which is 18% 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 472.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 78 B

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.3 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. Qctoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 659.7 kB
  • After minification 659.6 kB
  • After compression 610.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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. Qctoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (78%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Qctoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

qctimes.com

qctimes.com

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Accessibility Review

qctoday.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

qctoday.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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Qctoday.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 Qctoday.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

qctoday.com

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