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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

dispatch.com

The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus, Ohio, News, Politics & Sports

Page Load Speed

202 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

90 ms

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

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

The Columbus Dispatch is the number one source for Columbus and Ohio breaking politics, business, obituaries, Ohio sports and entertainment news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 172 ms 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Dispatch.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

dispatch.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dispatch.com

30 ms

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10 ms

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9 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dispatch.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (30 ms) belongs to the original domain Dispatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

35.5 kB

After Optimization

32.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Dispatch.com main page is 35.5 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 30.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 3.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 30.5 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. Dispatch images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dispatch. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.dispatch.com

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30 ms

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10 ms

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9 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

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12 ms

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

dispatch.com accessibility score

85

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

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dispatch.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

dispatch.com SEO score

93

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

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 Dispatch.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 Dispatch.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

dispatch.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dispatch. 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: