Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

sourcenews.com

The Daily Reporter – Central Ohio's leading business and legal news resource!

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sourcenews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 2.5 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

sourcenews.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sourcenews.com

104 ms

www.thedailyreporteronline.com

139 ms

css_b748f47ab12c462f2174e39adbd067ba.css

134 ms

grid16-960.css

54 ms

js_28d7fc05b8639aaf80689040f8ea6d9f.js

218 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sourcenews.com, 81% (17 requests) were made to Thedailyreporteronline.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Thedailyreporteronline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.7 kB (30%)

Content Size

195.1 kB

After Optimization

137.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Sourcenews.com main page is 195.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 137.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 5.9 kB, which is 14% 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 32.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 112.0 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, Source News needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Source News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

sourcenews.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sourcenews.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

SEO Factors

sourcenews.com SEO score

50

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

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 Sourcenews.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 Sourcenews.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 Source News. 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: