Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

startribune.com

Latest Minnesota news, weather, and sports.

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

startribune.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startribune.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

startribune.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

startribune.com

11 ms

www.startribune.com

1691 ms

htlbid.js

627 ms

jquery.min.js

46 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

374 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Startribune.com, 19% (27 requests) were made to Chorus.stimg.co and 9% (12 requests) were made to Apps.startribune.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Startribune.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 469.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

809.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Startribune.com main page is 1.3 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 410.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 349.3 kB

  • Original 407.2 kB
  • After minification 302.6 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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 104.6 kB, which is 26% 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 349.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 384.9 kB
  • After minification 384.8 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. Startribune images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 114.9 kB

  • Original 410.6 kB
  • After minification 386.3 kB
  • After compression 295.7 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 114.9 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 76.2 kB
  • After compression 71.2 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. Startribune.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (52%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Startribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

startribune.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

startribune.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

startribune.com SEO score

86

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

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 Startribune.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 Startribune.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 Startribune. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: