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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

daily-journal.com

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Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daily-journal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

daily-journal.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

daily-journal.com

22 ms

daily-journal.com

88 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

99 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

105 ms

theme-basic.a7351649a9c39f0af7c6d288a87ef140.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Daily-journal.com, 48% (78 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 7% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 600.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Daily-journal.com main page is 2.3 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 558.9 kB

  • Original 628.2 kB
  • After minification 544.6 kB
  • After compression 69.4 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 83.7 kB, which is 13% 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 558.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 538.4 kB
  • After minification 538.4 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. Daily Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-20%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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. Daily-journal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (51%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

75

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Daily Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

daily-journal.com accessibility score

88

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

daily-journal.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

daily-journal.com SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Daily-journal.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 Daily-journal.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 Daily Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: