Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

brainerddispatch.com

Brainerd Dispatch | Brainerd Baxter Minnesota

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

863 ms

brainerddispatch.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brainerddispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brainerddispatch.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value28,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brainerddispatch.com

1623 ms

www.brainerddispatch.com

272 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

59 ms

css_vZ_wrMQ9Og-YPPxa1q4us3N7DsZMJa-14jShHgRoRNo.css

59 ms

css_drAaZvIujzE0WQHPZOt8-T119XbC59ClvGgsZR7SC8M.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 435 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Brainerddispatch.com, 5% (22 requests) were made to Widgets.fccinteractive.com and 5% (20 requests) were made to Bh.contextweb.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Brainerddispatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (25%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Brainerddispatch.com main page is 7.1 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. 85% 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. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 217.8 kB

  • Original 269.3 kB
  • After minification 262.0 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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 217.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 261.1 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Brainerd Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 559.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 156.6 kB

  • Original 193.1 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Brainerddispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 156.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 224 (57%)

Requests Now

393

After Optimization

169

The browser has sent 393 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brainerd Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 78 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brainerddispatch.com accessibility score

89

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

Best Practices

brainerddispatch.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

brainerddispatch.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Brainerddispatch.com 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 Brainerddispatch.com 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 Brainerd Dispatch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: