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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

amp.bellinghamherald.com

Bellingham WA Breaking News, Sports & Crime | Bellingham Herald

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

626 ms

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Amp.bellinghamherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 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

amp.bellinghamherald.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

amp.bellinghamherald.com

215 ms

css

42 ms

mi-styles.430f5389da1d3dad4b35.css

26 ms

bellinghamheraldcore.js

148 ms

style.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Amp.bellinghamherald.com, 41% (13 requests) were made to Bellinghamherald.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Img.connatix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (265 ms) relates to the external source Sacbee.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 380.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Amp.bellinghamherald.com main page is 2.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 191.4 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 132.6 kB, which is 64% 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 191.4 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 188.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB

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. Amp Bellingham Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 451.4 kB
  • After minification 451.4 kB
  • After compression 451.4 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

-67%

Potential reduce by 182 B

  • Original 272 B
  • After minification 114 B
  • After compression 90 B

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. Amp.bellinghamherald.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182 B or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Amp Bellingham 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

amp.bellinghamherald.com accessibility score

81

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

amp.bellinghamherald.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

amp.bellinghamherald.com SEO score

100

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 Amp.bellinghamherald.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 Amp.bellinghamherald.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 Amp Bellingham 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: