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Click here to check amazing Mercury News content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mercurynews.com
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
Visit mercurynews.comWe 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.
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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 size can be reduced by 6.0 MB (52%)
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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.
Potential reduce by 281.2 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.
Potential reduce by 225.2 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. Mercury News images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 4.6 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.
Potential reduce by 915.3 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.
Number of requests can be reduced by 139 (74%)
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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.
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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.
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
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Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
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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.
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Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).
List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.
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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.
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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: