Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

avui.cat

El Punt Avui - Blogs

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

avui.cat screenshot

About Website

Visit avui.cat now to see the best up-to-date Avui content for Spain and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about avui.cat

Notícies en català dels Països Catalans i els seus municipis, actualitat d'Europa i el món. Societat, Territori, Política, Economia, Cultura, Comunicació, Opinió i Esports

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Key Findings

We analyzed Avui.cat page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 4.5 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

avui.cat performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value55.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

avui.cat

318 ms

barcelona.html

737 ms

bootstrap.min.css

28 ms

css_com_epanoticies_desktop-20240430113017.css

32 ms

jquery.min.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Avui.cat, 86% (101 requests) were made to Elpuntavui.cat and 8% (10 requests) were made to Quiosc.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1000 ms) relates to the external source Elpuntavui.cat.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 572.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Avui.cat main page is 2.4 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 452.4 kB

  • Original 507.8 kB
  • After minification 404.5 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 103.3 kB, which is 20% 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 452.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Avui images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 71.4 kB
  • After minification 71.4 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Avui.cat has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (11%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Avui. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

avui.cat accessibility score

68

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

avui.cat best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

avui.cat SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    CA

  • Language Claimed

    CA

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Avui.cat can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Catalan is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Avui.cat 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 Avui. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: