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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

alamedasun.com

Alameda Sun | Alameda's only locally owned and operated newspaper

Page Load Speed

973 ms in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

719 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alamedasun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 881 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alamedasun.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.27

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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92 ms

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147 ms

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55 ms

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77 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Alamedasun.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (299 ms) belongs to the original domain Alamedasun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alamedasun.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 45.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Alameda Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 308.2 kB
  • After minification 221.8 kB
  • After compression 109.6 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 198.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 129.4 kB

  • Original 163.4 kB
  • After minification 159.1 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Alamedasun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (28%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alameda Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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92 ms

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147 ms

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28 ms

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55 ms

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77 ms

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81 ms

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84 ms

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37 ms

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26 ms

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101 ms

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130 ms

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106 ms

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125 ms

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57 ms

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63 ms

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63 ms

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Accessibility Review

alamedasun.com accessibility score

92

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alamedasun.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alamedasun.com SEO score

84

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alamedasun.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Alamedasun.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alameda Sun. 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: