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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

calcoastnews.com

Cal Coast News

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

768 ms

Page Rendered

428 ms

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About Website

Visit calcoastnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Cal Coast News content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about calcoastnews.com

San Luis Obispo County’s on-line independent news source producing in-depth investigative news in the public interest.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Calcoastnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

calcoastnews.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

calcoastnews.com

254 ms

reset.css

76 ms

layout.css

114 ms

common.js

76 ms

wpb-cr-frontend.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Calcoastnews.com, 10% (6 requests) were made to Static.calcoastnews.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (254 ms) belongs to the original domain Calcoastnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.9 kB (44%)

Content Size

908.7 kB

After Optimization

509.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Calcoastnews.com main page is 908.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 384.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 75.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 384.1 kB
  • After minification 349.8 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. Cal Coast News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 224.4 kB

  • Original 350.9 kB
  • After minification 346.4 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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 224.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Calcoastnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (37%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cal Coast 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

calcoastnews.com

calcoastnews.com

254 ms

reset.css

reset.css

76 ms

layout.css

layout.css

114 ms

common.js

common.js

76 ms

wpb-cr-frontend.css

wpb-cr-frontend.css

85 ms

wpb-cr-frontend-awesome.css

wpb-cr-frontend-awesome.css

123 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

229 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

119 ms

wpb-cr-frontend.js

wpb-cr-frontend.js

127 ms

brand

brand

18 ms

all.js

all.js

71 ms

brand

brand

80 ms

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swfobject.js

60 ms

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60 ms

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60 ms

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e-201609.js

4 ms

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7 ms

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10 ms

container.html

container.html

22 ms

fo.js

fo.js

12 ms

logo.jpg

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118 ms

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57 ms

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58 ms

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116 ms

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114 ms

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146 ms

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142 ms

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148 ms

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113 ms

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114 ms

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113 ms

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114 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.png

btn_donateCC_LG.png

112 ms

ads

ads

168 ms

light_on.png

light_on.png

211 ms

light_off.png

light_off.png

182 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

60 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

139 ms

199 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

76 ms

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173 ms

collect

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16 ms

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115 ms

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114 ms

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136 ms

osd.js

osd.js

20 ms

fmr.js

fmr.js

96 ms

print.css

print.css

38 ms

Accessibility Review

calcoastnews.com accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

calcoastnews.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

calcoastnews.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Calcoastnews.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 Calcoastnews.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

calcoastnews.com

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