Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

castingnews.eu

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Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

591 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castingnews.eu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec 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

castingnews.eu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castingnews.eu

1800 ms

castingnews.eu

1559 ms

bootstrap.css

450 ms

font-awesome.css

460 ms

superfish.css

462 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Castingnews.eu, 9% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Castingnews.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Castingnews.eu main page is 2.1 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. 75% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 104.7 kB

  • Original 114.7 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 58.5 kB, which is 51% 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 104.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Casting News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 140 B

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 77.6 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 0 B

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Castingnews.eu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (47%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Casting 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

castingnews.eu accessibility score

56

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

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

castingnews.eu best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

castingnews.eu SEO score

76

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    IT

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Castingnews.eu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Castingnews.eu 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 description is not detected on the main page of Casting 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: