Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

balarm.it

Balarm.it - Idee, storie e persone che muovono la Sicilia

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

371 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

581 ms

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About Website

Welcome to balarm.it homepage info - get ready to check Balarm best content for Italy right away, or after learning these important things about balarm.it

Balarm.it è una testata di informazione giornalistica fondata nel 2003 da Fabio Ricotta che, oltre ai più rilevanti temi di attualità, racconta la Sicilia a 360 gradi

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balarm.it page load time and found that the first response time was 371 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balarm.it performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balarm.it

371 ms

www.balarm.it

1670 ms

js

51 ms

cookieyesno.1.1.1b.js

185 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

390 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Balarm.it, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Balarm.it.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.5 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Balarm.it main page is 2.0 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 274.2 kB

  • Original 305.9 kB
  • After minification 247.4 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.5 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 274.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Balarm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 117.5 kB
  • After minification 117.5 kB
  • After compression 113.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Balarm.it needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (24%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balarm. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

balarm.it accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

balarm.it 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balarm.it SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balarm.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian 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 Balarm.it 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 Balarm. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: