Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

batonrougenews.net

Baton Rouge News.Net | Current News from Baton Rouge, La

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

About Website

Welcome to batonrougenews.net homepage info - get ready to check Baton Rouge News best content right away, or after learning these important things about batonrougenews.net

Baton Rouge news portal covering events and people around the capital. Includes coverage of Louisiana, links to local government sites, and The Advocate newspaper.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Batonrougenews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 30 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

batonrougenews.net performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,050 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

batonrougenews.net

30 ms

www.batonrougenews.net

550 ms

foundation.min.css

73 ms

red_style.css

64 ms

font-awesome.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Batonrougenews.net, 25% (21 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 17% (14 requests) were made to Static.themainstreammedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Batonrougenews.net 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 574.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.6 kB, which is 19% 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 44.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 569.8 kB
  • After minification 546.3 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. Baton Rouge News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 574.0 kB
  • After minification 574.0 kB
  • After compression 568.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 134.7 kB
  • After minification 134.7 kB
  • After compression 134.6 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. Batonrougenews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (33%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baton Rouge News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

batonrougenews.net accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

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

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

SEO Factors

batonrougenews.net 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Batonrougenews.net 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 Batonrougenews.net 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 Baton Rouge News. 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: