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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ctmirror.com

CT Mirror: Connecticut News and In-Depth Reporting

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

680 ms

ctmirror.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctmirror.com page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctmirror.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.262

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctmirror.com

226 ms

ctmirror.org

220 ms

ga.js

17 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

123 ms

slides.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ctmirror.com, 42% (54 requests) were made to 3xa3sn2xtr6117bb6o2m6zwf8ea.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 13% (16 requests) were made to Projects.ctmirror.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (40%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ctmirror.com main page is 2.9 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 178.7 kB

  • Original 229.7 kB
  • After minification 221.1 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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. 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 178.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 433.7 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, CT Mirror needs image optimization as it can save up to 433.7 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 443.3 kB

  • Original 737.4 kB
  • After minification 726.6 kB
  • After compression 294.1 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 443.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 125.4 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Ctmirror.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (41%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CT Mirror. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ctmirror.com

ctmirror.com

226 ms

ctmirror.org

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220 ms

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17 ms

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123 ms

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219 ms

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150 ms

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97 ms

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101 ms

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101 ms

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98 ms

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100 ms

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98 ms

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103 ms

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102 ms

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102 ms

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111 ms

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101 ms

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102 ms

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107 ms

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107 ms

logo-cthealth.png

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100 ms

CHA.jpg

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100 ms

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99 ms

CT_WorkAndSave_300x250-Revised.jpg

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100 ms

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99 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

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107 ms

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101 ms

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100 ms

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99 ms

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98 ms

cse.js

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132 ms

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97 ms

CTN_CubeFeb2016.gif

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92 ms

CTN_Feb14_CTMirrorLeaderboard.gif

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83 ms

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88 ms

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68 ms

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jsapi

125 ms

css

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14 ms

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ads

476 ms

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23 ms

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14 ms

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21 ms

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21 ms

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29 ms

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36 ms

jquery.form-n-validate.js

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70 ms

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10 ms

all.js

all.js

342 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

325 ms

plusone.js

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422 ms

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264 ms

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108 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

127 ms

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127 ms

viewpoints.png

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33 ms

small-logo.png

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91 ms

search_box_icon.png

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92 ms

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90 ms

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95 ms

expansion_embed.js

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66 ms

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91 ms

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57 ms

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34 ms

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194 ms

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100 ms

Accessibility Review

ctmirror.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

ctmirror.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ctmirror.com SEO score

98

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

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 Ctmirror.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 Ctmirror.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

ctmirror.com

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