Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

siliconbayounews.com

Silicon Bayou News - Highlighting and supporting entrepreneurs, creatives & tech startups in the Silicon Bayou

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

252 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Siliconbayounews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec 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

siliconbayounews.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

siliconbayounews.com

1797 ms

style.css

147 ms

widget.css

139 ms

public.css

163 ms

lightGallery.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Siliconbayounews.com, 14% (17 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Siliconbayounews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 757.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

938.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Siliconbayounews.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 788.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 270.8 kB

  • Original 296.2 kB
  • After minification 293.1 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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 270.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 788.9 kB
  • After minification 694.7 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. Obviously, Silicon Bayou News needs image optimization as it can save up to 94.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 250.6 kB

  • Original 401.3 kB
  • After minification 384.9 kB
  • After compression 150.7 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 250.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 141.9 kB

  • Original 209.8 kB
  • After minification 186.4 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Siliconbayounews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (64%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Silicon Bayou News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

siliconbayounews.com accessibility score

71

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

siliconbayounews.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

siliconbayounews.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Siliconbayounews.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 Siliconbayounews.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 data is detected on the main page of Silicon Bayou News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: