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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

bcrnews.com

Illinois Valley: Local news and sports for La Salle County, Illinois and Bureau County, Illinois

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

392 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bcr News content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bcrnews.com

Illinois Valley features local news, sports, events, business news, local government news and more for La Salle County and Bureau County, Illinois. Part of the Shaw Local News Network.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcrnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcrnews.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,060 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bcrnews.com

44 ms

style.css

13 ms

matchMedia.js

16 ms

comments-base.js

17 ms

comments-action.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Bcrnews.com, 6% (10 requests) were made to Platform.tout.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Launch.newsinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (716 ms) relates to the external source Platform.tout.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (37%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcrnews.com main page is 4.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 110.5 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 110.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Bcr News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 956.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Bcrnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (46%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bcr 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 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bcrnews.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

Best Practices

bcrnews.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bcrnews.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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 Bcrnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bcrnews.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 Bcr 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: