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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

birminghamnews.net

Birmingham News as it Happens from Birmingham News.Net

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

439 ms

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About Website

Visit birminghamnews.net now to see the best up-to-date Birmingham News content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about birminghamnews.net

Breaking Birmingham news, Alabama updates, plus international stories, finance, business, and markets. Includes a city map, access to local newspapers including The Birmingham News, and official gover...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birminghamnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birminghamnews.net performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birminghamnews.net

38 ms

www.birminghamnews.net

766 ms

foundation.min.css

62 ms

red_style.css

67 ms

font-awesome.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Birminghamnews.net, 21% (16 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 17% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (766 ms) belongs to the original domain Birminghamnews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birminghamnews.net main page is 1.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 572.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 16.9 kB, which is 17% 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 73.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 451.9 kB
  • After minification 427.5 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. Birmingham News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 572.3 kB
  • After minification 572.3 kB
  • After compression 567.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 134.7 kB
  • After minification 134.7 kB
  • After compression 134.6 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. Birminghamnews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (35%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birmingham 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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38 ms

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766 ms

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67 ms

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37 ms

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49 ms

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Accessibility Review

birminghamnews.net accessibility score

50

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

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

birminghamnews.net SEO score

86

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

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 Birminghamnews.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 Birminghamnews.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

birminghamnews.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Birmingham 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: