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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

reviews.sfgate.com

SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food and Drink - SFGATE

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

9.1 sec

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About Website

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Your San Francisco Bay Area local news source plus the latest in sports, culture, weather, food and drink, politics, real estate, Lake Tahoe and California Parks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reviews.sfgate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 14.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reviews.sfgate.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value53.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value97,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value137.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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179 ms

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44 ms

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67 ms

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33 ms

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194 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Reviews.sfgate.com, 20% (17 requests) were made to S.hdnux.com and 16% (14 requests) were made to Sfgate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source S.hdnux.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

953.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Reviews.sfgate.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. 85% 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 666.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 263.4 kB

  • Original 301.7 kB
  • After minification 207.2 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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 94.5 kB, which is 31% 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 263.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 666.1 kB
  • After minification 647.7 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. Reviews SFGATE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 253.4 kB
  • After minification 253.4 kB
  • After compression 238.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 287 B

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Reviews.sfgate.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (53%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reviews SFGATE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

reviews.sfgate.com accessibility score

61

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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.

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

reviews.sfgate.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

reviews.sfgate.com SEO score

85

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 Reviews.sfgate.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 Reviews.sfgate.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

reviews.sfgate.com

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