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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

northpointenow.org

North Pointe Now – The student news site of Grosse Pointe North High School. 707 Vernier Rd., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

About Website

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The student news site of Grosse Pointe North High School. 707 Vernier Rd., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northpointenow.org page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northpointenow.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northpointenow.org

36 ms

northpointenow.org

474 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

20 ms

dashicons.min.css

42 ms

elusive.min.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Northpointenow.org, 10% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (474 ms) belongs to the original domain Northpointenow.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northpointenow.org main page is 4.2 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 285.2 kB

  • Original 333.6 kB
  • After minification 318.3 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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 285.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 181.6 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. North Pointe Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 157.5 kB
  • After minification 156.9 kB
  • After compression 142.6 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 166.6 kB
  • After minification 164.0 kB
  • After compression 154.9 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. Northpointenow.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (63%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Pointe Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northpointenow.org accessibility score

90

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.

Best Practices

northpointenow.org 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

northpointenow.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Northpointenow.org 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 Northpointenow.org 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 North Pointe Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: