Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

newbrunswicktoday.com

Frontpage - New Brunswick Today | New Brunswick, NJ Local News

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newbrunswicktoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 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

newbrunswicktoday.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newbrunswicktoday.com

38 ms

css_4453eea50d90e0cf423ed70540e5f65a.css

24 ms

css_303d1777ab35101c281aa2df99bbf48c.css

23 ms

js_18753eb1590e2b4e31eec3f0f1d65523.js

46 ms

init.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 236 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Newbrunswicktoday.com, 9% (22 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (20 requests) were made to Adserver.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (905 ms) relates to the external source Pixel.rubiconproject.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 889.4 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Newbrunswicktoday.com main page is 1.9 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. 75% 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 714.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 94.1 kB

  • Original 112.8 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 94.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 713.1 kB
  • After minification 676.6 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. New Brunswick Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 462.2 kB

  • Original 714.0 kB
  • After minification 690.1 kB
  • After compression 251.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 462.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 296.6 kB

  • Original 355.5 kB
  • After minification 352.1 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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. Newbrunswicktoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (41%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Brunswick Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

newbrunswicktoday.com accessibility score

76

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

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

newbrunswicktoday.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newbrunswicktoday.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Newbrunswicktoday.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 Newbrunswicktoday.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 New Brunswick Today. 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: