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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

southern-sentinel.com

Southern Sentinel-Advocate | djournal.com

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

832 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southern-sentinel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 116 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

southern-sentinel.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

116 ms

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136 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Southern-sentinel.com, 13% (14 requests) were made to Mercolocal.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (339 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 933.1 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southern-sentinel.com main page is 2.2 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. 75% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 386.2 kB

  • Original 440.9 kB
  • After minification 383.1 kB
  • After compression 54.7 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 57.8 kB, which is 13% 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 386.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 120 B

  • Original 352.6 kB
  • After minification 352.4 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. Southern Sentinel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 531.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 734.4 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 531.7 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 99.7 kB
  • After compression 84.6 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. Southern-sentinel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (49%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Sentinel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

southern-sentinel.com accessibility score

80

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southern-sentinel.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

southern-sentinel.com SEO score

91

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

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 Southern-sentinel.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 Southern-sentinel.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

southern-sentinel.com

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