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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

smcitizen.com

Marion Citizen Newspaper | chronicleonline.com

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

438 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sm Citizen content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about smcitizen.com

The Marion Citizen is a free weekly community newspaper that publishes on Fridays in print and online. Serving the southwest area of Marion County, on the edge of Ocala.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smcitizen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 167 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

smcitizen.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

167 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

129 ms

layout.d9bf9fa5b377514df7224a864456e96d.css

137 ms

theme-basic.a7351649a9c39f0af7c6d288a87ef140.css

125 ms

css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Smcitizen.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Chronicleonline.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (394 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 933.9 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

812.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smcitizen.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 970.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 810.1 kB

  • Original 970.0 kB
  • After minification 874.4 kB
  • After compression 159.9 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 810.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 177.5 kB
  • After minification 177.5 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. Sm Citizen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 109.3 kB

  • Original 523.2 kB
  • After minification 523.1 kB
  • After compression 413.9 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 109.3 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 75.2 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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. Smcitizen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (66%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sm Citizen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

smcitizen.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

Best Practices

smcitizen.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

smcitizen.com SEO score

88

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

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 Smcitizen.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 Smcitizen.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 Sm Citizen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: