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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

talon.news

Talon News: Oklahoma Christian's Student Newspaper

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Talon content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about talon.news

The Talon News is a student-run newspaper which serves the Oklahoma Christian University community with timely and relevant news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talon.news page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talon.news performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.talon.news

324 ms

style.min.css

162 ms

matweetfeeds-style.css

109 ms

perfect-pullquotes.css

111 ms

fonts.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Talon.news, 12% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (525 ms) belongs to the original domain Talon.news.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 756.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Talon.news main page is 7.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 85.6 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 102.4 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 85.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 663.6 kB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Talon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 126.9 kB
  • After compression 123.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 48.1 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Talon.news has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

talon.news accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

talon.news best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

talon.news 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 Talon.news 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 Talon.news 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 Talon. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: