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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

cm.detroitnews.com

Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

917 ms

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cm.detroitnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cm.detroitnews.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.detroitnews.com

176 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

40 ms

polyfill.min.js

541 ms

gallium.js

68 ms

gallium.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cm.detroitnews.com, 20% (4 requests) were made to Gannett-cdn.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Detroitnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (541 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cm.detroitnews.com main page is 3.6 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 164.9 kB
  • After minification 164.6 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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 130.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Cm Detroit News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 147.0 kB
  • After compression 145.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (46%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cm Detroit 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.detroitnews.com

www.detroitnews.com

176 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

webcomponents-loader.js

40 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

541 ms

gallium.js

gallium.js

68 ms

gallium.js

gallium.js

83 ms

custom-elements-es5-adapter.js

custom-elements-es5-adapter.js

40 ms

section.js

section.js

117 ms

webcomponents-lite.js

webcomponents-lite.js

6 ms

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72704755007-0222-kk-me-roosevelt-school-01.jpg

90 ms

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8202816a-835d-4f52-ad0a-ea481db5eed3-2022-0701-ctj-bu-marijuana_biz002.jpg

83 ms

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72391752007-20240128-dmlionssf-1664.jpg

79 ms

icon-instagram_24.png

icon-instagram_24.png

81 ms

UnifySans_W_SBd.woff

UnifySans_W_SBd.woff

49 ms

UnifySans_W_Bd.woff

UnifySans_W_Bd.woff

34 ms

UnifySans_W_Rg.woff

UnifySans_W_Rg.woff

34 ms

universal.html

universal.html

68 ms

polymer.html

polymer.html

66 ms

UnifySerif_W_Rg.woff

UnifySerif_W_Rg.woff

80 ms

UnifySerif_W_SBd.woff

UnifySerif_W_SBd.woff

68 ms

UnifySerif_W_Bd.woff

UnifySerif_W_Bd.woff

46 ms

Accessibility Review

cm.detroitnews.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

cm.detroitnews.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cm.detroitnews.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

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 Cm.detroitnews.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 Cm.detroitnews.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

cm.detroitnews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cm Detroit 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: