Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

scrantontimes.com

thetimes-tribune.com

Page Load Speed

20.2 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

16.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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About Website

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The Scranton Times Tribune online is the source of news and information for Northeast Pennsylvania; providing local and breaking news, sports, wine reviews, dinner recipes, road construction, and traf...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scrantontimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 20 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scrantontimes.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value81.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thetimes-tribune.com

215 ms

ui_tabs.css

154 ms

nav_ui_tabs.css

141 ms

ui_tabs_v.css

153 ms

poll_new.css

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 423 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Scrantontimes.com, 8% (34 requests) were made to Dmc2k.digitalmediacommunications.com and 5% (22 requests) were made to Widgets.digitalmediacommunications.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Pbs.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (57%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Scrantontimes.com main page is 6.5 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. Javascripts take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 411.6 kB

  • Original 519.8 kB
  • After minification 415.4 kB
  • After compression 108.2 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 104.4 kB, which is 20% 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 411.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Scrantontimes needs image optimization as it can save up to 164.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 2.8 MB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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 2.8 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 374.8 kB

  • Original 459.8 kB
  • After minification 406.7 kB
  • After compression 85.0 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. Scrantontimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 374.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 209 (53%)

Requests Now

397

After Optimization

188

The browser has sent 397 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scrantontimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 127 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scrantontimes.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

<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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

scrantontimes.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scrantontimes.com SEO score

70

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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