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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

localnewsresearchproject.ca

The Local News Research Project | The Local News Research Project

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

845 ms

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Local News Research Project content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about localnewsresearchproject.ca

The Local News Research Project, led by Ryerson University journalism professor April Lindgren, explores the factors that influence local news reporting, and investigates how the content, the geograph...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Localnewsresearchproject.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

localnewsresearchproject.ca performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

localnewsresearchproject.ca

102 ms

localnewsresearchproject.ca

402 ms

js

104 ms

style.min.css

77 ms

wpa-style.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Localnewsresearchproject.ca, 92% (67 requests) were made to S35582.pcdn.co and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) belongs to the original domain Localnewsresearchproject.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 587.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Localnewsresearchproject.ca main page is 5.2 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. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 139.2 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 161.5 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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. 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 139.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 445.0 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Local News Research Project images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 637 B

  • Original 63.6 kB
  • After minification 63.6 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Localnewsresearchproject.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (30%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

48

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local News Research Project. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

localnewsresearchproject.ca accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

localnewsresearchproject.ca best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

localnewsresearchproject.ca SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Localnewsresearchproject.ca 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 Localnewsresearchproject.ca 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 Local News Research Project. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: