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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

edglentoday.com

EdGlenToday.com - Your Website, Your Community featuring News and Sports for the Edwardsville and Glen Carbon communities

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Visit edglentoday.com now to see the best up-to-date Ed Glen Today content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about edglentoday.com

EdGlenToday.com is THE source for information in the Edwardsville / Glen Carbon area. Featuring News, Sports, free classifieds, a event calendar, video, recipes, coupons and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edglentoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 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

edglentoday.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,320 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

edglentoday.com

52 ms

www.edglentoday.com

80 ms

index.cfm

97 ms

homepage.css

18 ms

homepage.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 204 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Edglentoday.com, 19% (39 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 12% (25 requests) were made to Static.riverbender.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 307.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Edglentoday.com main page is 6.3 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. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 126.4 kB
  • After minification 125.8 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 97.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 106.3 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Ed Glen Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 97.2 kB

  • Original 656.0 kB
  • After minification 653.5 kB
  • After compression 558.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 97.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Edglentoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (49%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

78

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ed Glen 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 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

edglentoday.com accessibility score

66

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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.

Best Practices

edglentoday.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

edglentoday.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Edglentoday.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 Edglentoday.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 Ed Glen Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: