Report Summary

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mobile.seattletimes.com

The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

705 ms

mobile.seattletimes.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mobile.seattletimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mobile.seattletimes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mobile.seattletimes.com

195 ms

www.seattletimes.com

35 ms

lty1dar.js

22 ms

391640544.js

118 ms

seattletimes.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mobile.seattletimes.com, 37% (31 requests) were made to Static.seattletimes.com and 17% (14 requests) were made to Seattletimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (432 ms) relates to the external source Seattletimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 864.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Mobile.seattletimes.com main page is 2.6 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 152.6 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 171.2 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 152.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 102.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Mobile Seattle Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 380.1 kB

  • Original 597.1 kB
  • After minification 595.6 kB
  • After compression 217.1 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 380.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 230.0 kB

  • Original 276.9 kB
  • After minification 276.7 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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. Mobile.seattletimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 230.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (37%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mobile Seattle Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

mobile.seattletimes.com SEO score

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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 Mobile.seattletimes.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 Mobile.seattletimes.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 Mobile Seattle Times. 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: