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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

golocalmagazines.com

CELEBRATING LOCAL LIFE IN MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT

Page Load Speed

513 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

280 ms

Page Rendered

218 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golocalmagazines.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 498 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golocalmagazines.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.186

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golocalmagazines.com

15 ms

www.golocalmagazines.com

33 ms

css

45 ms

bootstrap.min.css

23 ms

style.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Golocalmagazines.com, 18% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (73 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

218.0 kB

After Optimization

128.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Golocalmagazines.com main page is 218.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 85.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 17.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Obviously, Go LOCAL Magazines needs image optimization as it can save up to 43.9 kB or 71% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 14.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 48.1 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. Golocalmagazines.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go LOCAL Magazines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 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

golocalmagazines.com accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best Practices

golocalmagazines.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

golocalmagazines.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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