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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ripplenews.com

Originally Reported, Hyperlocal Neighborhood News | Hoodline

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

829 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ripplenews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ripplenews.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,630 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ripplenews.com

30 ms

hoodline.com

960 ms

application-c70d91e2231dcb4679ebe72e3cff84c42894b12446d465ee83027ab028329e81.css

40 ms

application-38ed572919da402442aed84a723fd56bd33fa22ce45cdc0775e19ebc3e12c51f.js

64 ms

css2

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ripplenews.com, 60% (63 requests) were made to Hoodline.com and 28% (29 requests) were made to Img.hoodline.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (960 ms) relates to the external source Hoodline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.8 kB (1%)

Content Size

18.8 MB

After Optimization

18.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ripplenews.com main page is 18.8 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 18.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 104.7 kB

  • Original 121.3 kB
  • After minification 121.3 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 104.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 18.4 MB
  • After minification 18.4 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. Ripple News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 300.0 kB
  • After minification 295.5 kB
  • After compression 203.1 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 96.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 194 B

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 40.0 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. Ripplenews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (10%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

89

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ripple News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ripplenews.com accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Best Practices

ripplenews.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ripplenews.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

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 Ripplenews.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 Ripplenews.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 Ripple News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: