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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blog.aftown.com

aftown news – entertainment, urban culture & lifestyle news

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.aftown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 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

blog.aftown.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.aftown.com

173 ms

blog.aftown.com

982 ms

vdru.css

271 ms

style.min.css

19 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.aftown.com, 34% (37 requests) were made to News.aftown.com and 32% (35 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (982 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.aftown.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.aftown.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 895.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 315.4 kB

  • Original 357.6 kB
  • After minification 347.1 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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 315.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 895.2 kB
  • After minification 879.8 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. Blog Aftown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 314.2 kB
  • After minification 314.2 kB
  • After compression 305.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 127.8 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 125.8 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. Blog.aftown.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (56%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Aftown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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173 ms

blog.aftown.com

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982 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.aftown.com accessibility score

90

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.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.aftown.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

SEO Factors

blog.aftown.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blog.aftown.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 Blog.aftown.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

blog.aftown.com

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