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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

stardem.com

stardem.com | Serving the Mid-Shore for 218 Years

Page Load Speed

84.5 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

59.8 sec

Page Rendered

24.5 sec

stardem.com screenshot

About Website

Visit stardem.com now to see the best up-to-date Stardem content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stardem.com

Homepage of the Star Democrat daily newspaper, serving Easton in Talbot County, Maryland, and Kent County, Queen Anne County, Caroline County and Dorchester County

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stardem.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 84.3 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

stardem.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value56.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stardem.com

150 ms

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888 ms

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667 ms

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1241 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Stardem.com, 31% (36 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 17% (19 requests) were made to D3v22qtikkf7t8.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.8 sec) relates to the external source Circulars.stardem.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stardem.com main page is 2.7 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 242.5 kB

  • Original 275.9 kB
  • After minification 215.7 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 60.3 kB, which is 22% 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 242.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 925.9 kB
  • After minification 921.5 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. Stardem images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 643.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 998.7 kB
  • After compression 360.5 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 643.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 422.4 kB

  • Original 522.3 kB
  • After minification 497.0 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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. Stardem.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 422.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (74%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stardem. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

stardem.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

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

Best Practices

stardem.com best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stardem.com SEO score

84

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 Stardem.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 Stardem.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

stardem.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Stardem. 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: