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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

dundasstarnews.com

Dundas News | The Spec

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

About Website

Welcome to dundasstarnews.com homepage info - get ready to check Dundas Star News best content right away, or after learning these important things about dundasstarnews.com

View articles from the Dundas Star News community newspaper. Local news and features are published regularly from Dundas and area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dundasstarnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dundasstarnews.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dundasstarnews.com

30 ms

home.html

137 ms

131 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

91 ms

layout.d9bf9fa5b377514df7224a864456e96d.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dundasstarnews.com, 37% (27 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Torstar.gscontxt.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 421.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

820.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dundasstarnews.com main page is 1.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 722.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 384.3 kB

  • Original 433.9 kB
  • After minification 351.9 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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 82.0 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 384.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 27.5 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. Dundas Star News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 722.0 kB
  • After minification 721.9 kB
  • After compression 696.5 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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. Dundasstarnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (80%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dundas Star 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dundasstarnews.com accessibility score

84

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

dundasstarnews.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dundasstarnews.com SEO score

89

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dundasstarnews.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 Dundasstarnews.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 data is detected on the main page of Dundas Star News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: