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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

freep.com

Detroit Free Press - Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

314 ms

Page Rendered

896 ms

About Website

Visit freep.com now to see the best up-to-date Free P content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about freep.com

Detroit Michigan news - freep.com is the Detroit Free Press. News about Detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around Michigan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freep.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freep.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.freep.com

57 ms

main-q1a2z385682446.min.js

4 ms

73418467007-04222024-umencampment-15.jpg

147 ms

73560310007-revised-screenshot-20240502-at-43026-pm.png

181 ms

73222597007-opening-day-040524-kpm-1022.jpg

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Freep.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (181 ms) belongs to the original domain Freep.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

307.8 kB

After Optimization

179.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Freep.com main page is 307.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 192.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 192.5 kB
  • After minification 192.5 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 128.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.5 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. Free P images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free P. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

freep.com accessibility score

77

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.

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

Best Practices

freep.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

freep.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Freep.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 Freep.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 Free P. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: