Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

mercurynews.com

The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary

Page Load Speed

200.5 sec in total

First Response

864 ms

Resources Loaded

174.8 sec

Page Rendered

24.8 sec

mercurynews.com screenshot

About Website

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The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercurynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 864 ms and then it took 199.7 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

mercurynews.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value28,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mercurynews.com

864 ms

6780111014.js

815 ms

3365 ms

css

6468 ms

css

6912 ms

Our browser made a total of 215 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Mercurynews.com, 11% (23 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 7% (14 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.5 sec) relates to the external source Dfm-mercurynews.disqus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.0 MB (52%)

Content Size

11.5 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Mercurynews.com main page is 11.5 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 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 281.2 kB

  • Original 353.3 kB
  • After minification 343.9 kB
  • After compression 72.2 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 281.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 225.2 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Mercury News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 4.6 MB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 6.9 MB
  • After compression 2.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 4.6 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 915.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 959.8 kB
  • After compression 187.5 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. Mercurynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 915.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 139 (74%)

Requests Now

187

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 187 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercury 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 98 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mercurynews.com accessibility score

79

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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

mercurynews.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 Mercurynews.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 Mercurynews.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 Mercury 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: