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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

expressnews.com

San Antonio Express-News | News, Sports, Business | ExpressNews.com - San Antonio Express-News

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

750 ms

expressnews.com screenshot

About Website

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

Stay on top of the latest in San Antonio news, sports and business from the San Antonio Express-News on ExpressNews.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expressnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 2.2 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

expressnews.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.649

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expressnews.com

92 ms

www.expressnews.com

141 ms

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6 ms

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16 ms

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12 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Expressnews.com, 15% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 9% (13 requests) were made to Ww2.hdnux.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) relates to the external source 7h10jkpxfk.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (22%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Expressnews.com main page is 7.8 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 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 47.7 kB, which is 35% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 115.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 149.9 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Express News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 804.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 409.3 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 804.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 660.5 kB

  • Original 788.3 kB
  • After minification 784.2 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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. Expressnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 660.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (42%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

83

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Express 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 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

expressnews.com

expressnews.com

92 ms

www.expressnews.com

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141 ms

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Accessibility Review

expressnews.com accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

expressnews.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

expressnews.com SEO score

85

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

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 Expressnews.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 Expressnews.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

expressnews.com

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