Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

appenmedia.com

appenmedia.com | News, Sports and Weather for North Fulton, South Forsyth and DeKalb County

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

829 ms

About Website

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Your source for local news, crime, schools, sports, weather and opinion serving North Fulton County, South Forsyth County and DeKalb County.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Appenmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

appenmedia.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,780 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

appenmedia.com

24 ms

www.appenmedia.com

81 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

101 ms

layout.b46cef82bac6c2a77ca1f12b4c79fc8a.css

117 ms

theme-basic.a7351649a9c39f0af7c6d288a87ef140.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Appenmedia.com, 42% (36 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 333.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

965.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Appenmedia.com main page is 1.3 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 627.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 294.0 kB

  • Original 332.8 kB
  • After minification 287.6 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.2 kB, which is 14% 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 294.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 273.0 kB
  • After minification 273.0 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. Appenmedia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 627.9 kB
  • After minification 627.8 kB
  • After compression 600.9 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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. Appenmedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (60%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Appenmedia. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

appenmedia.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

appenmedia.com best practices score

67

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

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

appenmedia.com SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Appenmedia.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 Appenmedia.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

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