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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sweetwaternow.com

SweetwaterNOW | Southwest Wyoming's Independent Online Local News

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing SweetwaterNOW content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sweetwaternow.com

SweetwaterNOW is the most-read news source in Southwest Wyoming, providing real-time news, coverage of local events, and information about the communities we love.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sweetwaternow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sweetwaternow.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.614

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sweetwaternow.com

39 ms

www.sweetwaternow.com

99 ms

js

174 ms

js

185 ms

style.min.css

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 208 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Sweetwaternow.com, 38% (78 requests) were made to Sweetwaternow.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com and 21% (43 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Sweetwaternow.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 749.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sweetwaternow.com main page is 7.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 309.2 kB

  • Original 356.5 kB
  • After minification 307.4 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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 49.1 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 309.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 269.4 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. SweetwaterNOW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 122.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 953.9 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 122.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 220.1 kB
  • After minification 220.1 kB
  • After compression 171.9 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. Sweetwaternow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (51%)

Requests Now

194

After Optimization

96

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 194 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SweetwaterNOW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sweetwaternow.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

sweetwaternow.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sweetwaternow.com SEO score

77

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

sweetwaternow.com

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