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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

substancenews.net

Substance News - Chicago Public School & Teachers Union News - Substance News

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

872 ms

Page Rendered

882 ms

About Website

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Reporting on Chicago Education, Political, and Labor Union News that focuses on corruption, crony capitalism, and doing what is best for the poorest students in the Chicago and US Public School System...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Substancenews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 1.8 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

substancenews.net performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

substancenews.net

107 ms

www.substancenews.net

667 ms

cloudflare.min.js

36 ms

scripts.js

24 ms

buyOnlineScripts.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Substancenews.net, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (667 ms) belongs to the original domain Substancenews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Substancenews.net main page is 2.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 23.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 111.9 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Substance News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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 58.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Substancenews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (17%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Substance 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

substancenews.net accessibility score

45

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

substancenews.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

substancenews.net SEO score

71

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Substancenews.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Substancenews.net 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 Substance News. 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: