Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

whittierdailynews.com

Whittier Daily News: Local News, Sports, Things to Do

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

whittierdailynews.com screenshot

About Website

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The Whittier Daily News is the local news source for Whittier, Montebello, La Habra, Pico Rivera and more, providing breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, things to do, opinion, photos, vide...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whittierdailynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 4 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

whittierdailynews.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.326

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whittierdailynews.com

33 ms

www.whittierdailynews.com

688 ms

css2

78 ms

htlbid.css

59 ms

style.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Whittierdailynews.com, 14% (19 requests) were made to Cdn59755463.blazingcdn.net and 8% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 372.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Whittierdailynews.com main page is 2.8 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. 85% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 199.7 kB

  • Original 245.4 kB
  • After minification 234.7 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. 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 199.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 113.7 kB

  • Original 882.1 kB
  • After minification 768.4 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. Obviously, Whittier Daily News needs image optimization as it can save up to 113.7 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 243.8 kB
  • After minification 243.8 kB
  • After compression 238.5 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. Whittierdailynews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (71%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whittier Daily News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whittierdailynews.com accessibility score

84

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

<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

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>).

High

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

SEO Factors

whittierdailynews.com SEO score

85

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 Whittierdailynews.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 Whittierdailynews.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 Whittier Daily News. 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: