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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

news.aftown.com

aftown news – entertainment, urban culture & lifestyle news

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.aftown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.aftown.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.aftown.com

177 ms

news.aftown.com

317 ms

vdru.css

94 ms

style.min.css

14 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original News.aftown.com, 28% (28 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 19% (19 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (531 ms) belongs to the original domain News.aftown.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.aftown.com main page is 1.6 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 769.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 253.2 kB

  • Original 281.9 kB
  • After minification 271.4 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 253.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 769.9 kB
  • After minification 754.4 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. News Aftown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 135.6 kB

  • Original 464.1 kB
  • After minification 464.1 kB
  • After compression 328.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 135.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

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. News.aftown.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (60%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 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

Accessibility Review

news.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

news.aftown.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

news.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 News.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 News.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

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