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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

14news.com

Home

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

653 ms

14news.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to 14news.com homepage info - get ready to check 14 News best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about 14news.com

14 News is the Tri-State's news and weather leader. WFIE covers Evansville, Owensboro, and 21 surrounding counties in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 14news.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 2.8 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

14news.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,840 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

14news.com

37 ms

www.14news.com

131 ms

platform.min.css

119 ms

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49 ms

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52 ms

Our browser made a total of 205 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original 14news.com, 20% (42 requests) were made to Wfie.images.worldnow.com and 8% (16 requests) were made to Ftpcontent.worldnow.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (675 ms) relates to the external source S3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (51%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 14news.com main page is 5.3 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. 80% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 206.7 kB

  • Original 248.7 kB
  • After minification 241.5 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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 206.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 113.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. 14 News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 652.0 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 1.9 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 461.7 kB

  • Original 572.1 kB
  • After minification 515.0 kB
  • After compression 110.4 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. 14news.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 461.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (41%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

99

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 14 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 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

14news.com accessibility score

84

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

14news.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

14news.com SEO score

92

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

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 14news.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 14news.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

14news.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 14 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: