Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

wilmington.patch.com

Wilmington News, Breaking News in Wilmington, MA

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

wilmington.patch.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wilmington.patch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wilmington.patch.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.243

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wilmington

62 ms

controltag

147 ms

css

26 ms

css_wyIsq8pGyMmgOCifn3NlirYtt8r71KXAfzhuAE6crls.css

15 ms

css_nTDrmfjFdpsQFN9ouYJXcgON0FF19dhmpO-auooIsGE.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Wilmington.patch.com, 12% (19 requests) were made to Patch.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to Patch-d.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (824 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Wilmington.patch.com main page is 2.7 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 184.0 kB

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 182.8 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 29.0 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 184.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 40.2 kB

  • Original 868.4 kB
  • After minification 828.2 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. Wilmington Patch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 842.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 473.9 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 842.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 217.7 kB

  • Original 256.5 kB
  • After minification 247.3 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. Wilmington.patch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 217.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (38%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

93

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wilmington Patch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wilmington.patch.com accessibility score

82

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

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

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

Best Practices

wilmington.patch.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wilmington.patch.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Wilmington.patch.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 Wilmington.patch.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 data is detected on the main page of Wilmington Patch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: