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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

eastcountygazette.com

Bringing East County residents positive community news about people who live and work in East County CA

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

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The Gazette family of newspapers began in July 2000 as three independent, privately owned publications. By popular request, in 2004, the Lakeside/Santee, Alpine and El Cajon Gazettes were combined int...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastcountygazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eastcountygazette.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eastcountygazette.com

86 ms

index.html

66 ms

ga.js

11 ms

header_defaultmasterborder.html

33 ms

body_index.html

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Eastcountygazette.com, 12% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Weatherforyou.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Weatherforyou.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

645.9 kB

After Optimization

480.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eastcountygazette.com main page is 645.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 449.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 995 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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 995 B or 49% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 449.3 kB
  • After minification 413.2 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. East County Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 103.3 kB

  • Original 164.2 kB
  • After minification 146.4 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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 103.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Eastcountygazette.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (48%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East County Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

eastcountygazette.com

eastcountygazette.com

86 ms

index.html

index.html

66 ms

ga.js

ga.js

11 ms

header_defaultmasterborder.html

header_defaultmasterborder.html

33 ms

body_index.html

body_index.html

99 ms

__utm.gif

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14 ms

jquery.js

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53 ms

easing.js

easing.js

43 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

42 ms

togglepane.js

togglepane.js

43 ms

accordion.js

accordion.js

39 ms

NOF_MLR.js

NOF_MLR.js

68 ms

fusion.css

fusion.css

69 ms

style.css

style.css

74 ms

site.css

site.css

69 ms

MLR.css

MLR.css

70 ms

MultiLayoutRegion3tab_top0.css

MultiLayoutRegion3tab_top0.css

77 ms

nof_jcarousel_skin.css

nof_jcarousel_skin.css

86 ms

MultiLayoutRegion1tab_top.css

MultiLayoutRegion1tab_top.css

87 ms

MultiLayoutRegion2tab_top.css

MultiLayoutRegion2tab_top.css

87 ms

MultiLayoutRegion3tab_top.css

MultiLayoutRegion3tab_top.css

86 ms

header_defaultmasterborder_nof.js

header_defaultmasterborder_nof.js

107 ms

js

js

157 ms

navbars.js

navbars.js

68 ms

body_index_nof.js

body_index_nof.js

97 ms

hw3.cgi

hw3.cgi

109 ms

facebook_icon_00025.png

facebook_icon_00025.png

94 ms

ECG-Logo-winter.jpg

ECG-Logo-winter.jpg

92 ms

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85 ms

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81 ms

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30 ms

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30 ms

scroll_2.jpg

scroll_2.jpg

37 ms

Page_1.jpg

Page_1.jpg

67 ms

p_Highlighted.jpg

p_Highlighted.jpg

38 ms

ec_connect.gif

ec_connect.gif

62 ms

line.gif

line.gif

30 ms

Graceful-Living-logo-new.jpg

Graceful-Living-logo-new.jpg

41 ms

tab_top.png

tab_top.png

49 ms

East-County--Gazette-Home_Hp_Highlighted_1.jpg

East-County--Gazette-Home_Hp_Highlighted_1.jpg

58 ms

My-Gazette-News_Np_Regular_1.jpg

My-Gazette-News_Np_Regular_1.jpg

55 ms

Spotlight_Np_Regular_1.jpg

Spotlight_Np_Regular_1.jpg

81 ms

Photos_Np_Regular_1.jpg

Photos_Np_Regular_1.jpg

72 ms

Puzzles_Np_Regular_1.jpg

Puzzles_Np_Regular_1.jpg

73 ms

Archives_Np_Regular_1.jpg

Archives_Np_Regular_1.jpg

83 ms

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Subscriptions_Np_Regular_1.jpg

81 ms

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87 ms

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101 ms

Legal-Public-Notices_Np_Regular_1.jpg

Legal-Public-Notices_Np_Regular_1.jpg

108 ms

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Display-Advertising_Np_Regular_1.jpg

103 ms

hw3.cgi

hw3.cgi

1393 ms

Accessibility Review

eastcountygazette.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

Best Practices

eastcountygazette.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

eastcountygazette.com SEO score

83

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eastcountygazette.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Eastcountygazette.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

eastcountygazette.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of East County Gazette. 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: