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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

latimes.newspapers.com

Los Angeles Times archive from 1881-2024 - Los Angeles Times Archive

Page Load Speed

428 ms in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

378 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

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The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Latimes.newspapers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 378 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

latimes.newspapers.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

latimes.newspapers.com

50 ms

latimes.newspapers.com

74 ms

newspapers-theme-redwood.87d58d87fab6dd4c2b3ba4f9e4855a81.css

34 ms

home-signed-out.bundle.677fc3915c9481775a3e57443f147a47.css

31 ms

powered-by-newspapers.afa60004d102b9f74a5839430548da1a.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Latimes.newspapers.com, 29% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

73.7 kB

After Optimization

53.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Latimes.newspapers.com main page is 73.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 39.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 20.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 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. La Times Newspapers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (60%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of La Times Newspapers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

latimes.newspapers.com accessibility score

81

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

latimes.newspapers.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

latimes.newspapers.com SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Latimes.newspapers.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 Latimes.newspapers.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 description is not detected on the main page of La Times Newspapers. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: