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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thechiefleader.com

Home - The Chief

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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

The Chief is a New York City newspaper covering municipal government, civil servants and the issues affecting New York State federal employees and all workers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thechiefleader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thechiefleader.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thechiefleader.com

219 ms

jquery.min.js

46 ms

bootstrap.min.css

67 ms

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

cq_base_beta.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Thechiefleader.com, 28% (28 requests) were made to Chiefbanners.creativecirclemedia.com and 25% (25 requests) were made to Zeta.creativecirclecdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) relates to the external source Zeta.creativecirclecdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thechiefleader.com main page is 4.4 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. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 110.6 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 15.9 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 92.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. The Chief Leader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 475.1 kB
  • After minification 474.7 kB
  • After compression 465.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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. Thechiefleader.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (53%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Chief Leader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thechiefleader.com

www.thechiefleader.com

219 ms

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46 ms

bootstrap.min.css

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67 ms

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65 ms

cq_base_beta.css

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39 ms

rvb.css

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100 ms

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142 ms

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77 ms

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61 ms

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109 ms

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132 ms

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134 ms

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147 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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162 ms

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107 ms

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32 ms

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59 ms

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101 ms

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base.js

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53 ms

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Accessibility Review

thechiefleader.com accessibility score

71

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thechiefleader.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thechiefleader.com SEO score

77

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 Thechiefleader.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 Thechiefleader.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

thechiefleader.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Chief Leader. 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: