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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

bostongroupienews.com

Boston Groupie News - Boston's Original Punk Rock Magazine

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

bostongroupienews.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bostongroupienews.com homepage info - get ready to check Boston Groupie News best content right away, or after learning these important things about bostongroupienews.com

The Boston Groupie News was published from 1975 to 1981 and has been online since 2002. The magazine is centered on Boston Punk Rock Music. We cover the punk scene now and have old material archived.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostongroupienews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostongroupienews.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value97.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostongroupienews.com

91 ms

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155 ms

js

221 ms

sdk.js

98 ms

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338 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Bostongroupienews.com, 11% (16 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source D1rx8vrt2hn1hc.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

13.1 MB

After Optimization

12.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostongroupienews.com main page is 13.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 59.0 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 8.5 kB, which is 11% 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 59.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 407.6 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Boston Groupie News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 MB
  • After compression 7.6 MB

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

-27%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 118.3 kB
  • After compression 85.8 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. Bostongroupienews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (17%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

122

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Groupie 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 22 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

bostongroupienews.com accessibility score

46

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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

bostongroupienews.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bostongroupienews.com SEO score

67

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostongroupienews.com 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 Bostongroupienews.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

bostongroupienews.com

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