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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

billingsgazette.net

Billings Gazette | Breaking News | Read Billings, MT and Montana breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on Montana sports, weather, en...

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

788 ms

Page Rendered

499 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Billingsgazette.net page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

billingsgazette.net performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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44 ms

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152 ms

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92 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Billingsgazette.net, 34% (18 requests) were made to Billingsgazette.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (269 ms) relates to the external source Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 449.5 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

557.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Billingsgazette.net main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 451.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 397.3 kB

  • Original 439.9 kB
  • After minification 356.3 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 83.6 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 397.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.5 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. Billings Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 451.3 kB
  • After minification 451.3 kB
  • After compression 414.9 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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. Billingsgazette.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (79%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Billings Gazette. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

billingsgazette.net accessibility score

98

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.

SEO Factors

billingsgazette.net SEO score

90

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 Billingsgazette.net 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 Billingsgazette.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Billings Gazette. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: