Access arizonaherald.com. Arizona Herald - Online Newspaper serving the state of Arizona

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,950 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

arizonaherald.com

34 ms

www.arizonaherald.com

31 ms

foundation.min.css

87 ms

white_style.css

95 ms

jquery.min.js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Arizonaherald.com, 33% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 21% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (537 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Arizonaherald.com main page is 1.2 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 29.6 kB

Original 37.5 kB
After minification 29.3 kB
After compression 7.9 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 8.2 kB, which is 22% 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 29.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

Original 1.0 MB
After minification 988.5 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. Arizona Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

Original 119.7 kB
After minification 119.7 kB
After compression 117.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

Original 64.5 kB
After minification 64.5 kB
After compression 63.7 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. Arizonaherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arizona Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Arizonaherald.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 Arizonaherald.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 description is not detected on the main page of Arizona Herald. 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: