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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

armedforcesdispatch.com

San Diego Local & National Military News|Dispatch Newspaper

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

227 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

About Website

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Navy Dispatch newspaper serves southern California with a weekly print newspaper for the military and also features an online version.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Armedforcesdispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 227 ms and then it took 4.2 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

armedforcesdispatch.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

armedforcesdispatch.com

227 ms

armedforcesdispatch.com

421 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

193 ms

top.jpg

143 ms

menu_bar_space_01.gif

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Armedforcesdispatch.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (603 ms) belongs to the original domain Armedforcesdispatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

803.2 kB

After Optimization

667.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Armedforcesdispatch.com main page is 803.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 640.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 162.1 kB
  • After minification 144.4 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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 17.7 kB, which is 11% 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 120.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 640.1 kB
  • After minification 624.6 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. Armedforces Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 170 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 891 B

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 170 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Armedforces Dispatch. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

armedforcesdispatch.com accessibility score

54

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

armedforcesdispatch.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

armedforcesdispatch.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Armedforcesdispatch.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Armedforcesdispatch.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Armedforces Dispatch. 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: