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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

ericrussell.bangordailynews.com

Maine news, sports, politics and obituaries — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ericrussell.bangordailynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 6.6 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

ericrussell.bangordailynews.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.458

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ericrussell.bangordailynews.com, 36% (50 requests) were made to Bangordailynews.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (901 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 753.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ericrussell.bangordailynews.com main page is 7.8 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. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 320.5 kB

  • Original 399.7 kB
  • After minification 383.6 kB
  • After compression 79.2 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 320.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Ericrussell Bangor Daily News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 423.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 971.5 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 423.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 105.0 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 97.2 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. Ericrussell.bangordailynews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (49%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

69

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ericrussell Bangor Daily 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ericrussell.bangordailynews.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ericrussell.bangordailynews.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

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

ericrussell.bangordailynews.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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

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 Ericrussell.bangordailynews.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 Ericrussell.bangordailynews.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

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