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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

cataniatoday.it

CataniaToday - cronaca e notizie da Catania

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

364 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

729 ms

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CataniaToday - il giornale on line: cronaca e notizie dai principali quartieri della città, e informazioni di sport e cultura

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cataniatoday.it page load time and found that the first response time was 364 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cataniatoday.it performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cataniatoday.it

364 ms

www.cataniatoday.it

692 ms

2f4e3b03746e791bbb5221bb826c6b9360405830-56cc77f3.css

472 ms

blackstone.js

586 ms

v2015_js.js

274 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Cataniatoday.it, 15% (23 requests) were made to 1.citynews-cataniatoday.stgy.it and 11% (16 requests) were made to 2.citynews-cataniatoday.stgy.it. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (692 ms) belongs to the original domain Cataniatoday.it.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 830.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cataniatoday.it main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 173.4 kB

  • Original 242.1 kB
  • After minification 242.0 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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 173.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 999.5 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. Catania Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 440.2 kB

  • Original 703.5 kB
  • After minification 700.3 kB
  • After compression 263.3 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 440.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 205.5 kB

  • Original 243.9 kB
  • After minification 239.6 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Cataniatoday.it needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 205.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (35%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

92

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catania Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cataniatoday.it accessibility score

90

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

cataniatoday.it 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

cataniatoday.it 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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cataniatoday.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian 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 Cataniatoday.it 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 Catania Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: