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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

detnews.com

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

Page Load Speed

83.9 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

48.5 sec

Page Rendered

35.1 sec

detnews.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Det News content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about detnews.com

Get the latest local Detroit and Michigan breaking news and analysis , sports and scores, photos, video and more from The Detroit News.

Visit detnews.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Detnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 83.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

detnews.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

detnews.com

211 ms

www.detroitnews.com

3759 ms

show_ads.js

1070 ms

main_modern.min.css

1401 ms

gpt.js

486 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Detnews.com, 77% (120 requests) were made to Gannett-cdn.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Detroitnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) relates to the external source Calendarapi-cdn.spingo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.1 MB (39%)

Content Size

18.5 MB

After Optimization

11.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Detnews.com main page is 18.5 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. 85% 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 10.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 274.1 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 1.3 MB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 909.3 kB

  • Original 10.4 MB
  • After minification 9.5 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. Det News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.6 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 494.0 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. Detnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 MB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (18%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

121

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Det 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

detnews.com accessibility score

81

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

detnews.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

detnews.com SEO score

86

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 Detnews.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 Detnews.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 Det News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: