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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

appalachianareanews.com

Appalachian Area News - Latest News & Facts US and World

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

671 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Appalachianareanews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

appalachianareanews.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

appalachianareanews.com

197 ms

www.appalachianareanews.com

478 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

75 ms

style.min.css

153 ms

pgafu-public.css

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Appalachianareanews.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Appalachianareanews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Appalachianareanews.com main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 84.8 kB

  • Original 98.6 kB
  • After minification 90.7 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 84.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Appalachian Area News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 84.8 kB
  • After compression 73.7 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 11.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 89.1 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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. Appalachianareanews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (62%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Appalachian Area 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 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

appalachianareanews.com

appalachianareanews.com

197 ms

www.appalachianareanews.com

www.appalachianareanews.com

478 ms

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75 ms

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153 ms

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219 ms

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287 ms

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216 ms

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302 ms

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34 ms

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428 ms

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561 ms

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563 ms

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2018 ms

Accessibility Review

appalachianareanews.com accessibility score

90

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

appalachianareanews.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

appalachianareanews.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

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 Appalachianareanews.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 Appalachianareanews.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

appalachianareanews.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Appalachian Area News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: