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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

articles.sun-sentinel.com

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Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

703 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Articles.sun-sentinel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

articles.sun-sentinel.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.326

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value63.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

articles.sun-sentinel.com

178 ms

www.sun-sentinel.com

44 ms

css2

98 ms

27 ms

htlbid.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Articles.sun-sentinel.com, 30% (24 requests) were made to Sun-sentinel.com and 26% (21 requests) were made to Cdn59755463.blazingcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 342.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Articles.sun-sentinel.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 626.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 235.2 kB

  • Original 280.5 kB
  • After minification 265.3 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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 235.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 432.4 kB
  • After minification 394.9 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. Articles Sun Sentinel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 67.6 kB

  • Original 626.1 kB
  • After minification 626.1 kB
  • After compression 558.5 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 67.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 186.3 kB
  • After minification 186.3 kB
  • After compression 183.6 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. Articles.sun-sentinel.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (70%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Articles Sun Sentinel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

articles.sun-sentinel.com 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

SEO Factors

articles.sun-sentinel.com SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Articles.sun-sentinel.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 Articles.sun-sentinel.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 Articles Sun Sentinel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: