Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

providence.thephoenix.com

Boston Phoenix - Local News, Events, Music, Restaurants, Reviews, Arts and Entertainment

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

5.2 sec

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

providence.thephoenix.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Providence.thephoenix.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.2 sec and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

providence.thephoenix.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

providence.thephoenix.com

5216 ms

css.min.css

266 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

jsv3.min.js

183 ms

PHXNetworkToolbar.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Providence.thephoenix.com, 46% (57 requests) were made to Cache.thephoenix.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Providence.thephoenix.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 408.8 kB (43%)

Content Size

961.3 kB

After Optimization

552.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Providence.thephoenix.com main page is 961.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 471.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 102.8 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 89.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 345.9 kB
  • After minification 333.5 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. Providence The Phoenix images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 284.0 kB

  • Original 471.9 kB
  • After minification 470.6 kB
  • After compression 188.0 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 284.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Providence.thephoenix.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (49%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence The Phoenix. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

providence.thephoenix.com accessibility score

69

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

providence.thephoenix.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

providence.thephoenix.com SEO score

76

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Providence.thephoenix.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 Providence.thephoenix.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 Providence The Phoenix. 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: