Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

fairfieldweekly.com

CTNow – Hartford Courant

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

261 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fairfieldweekly.com page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fairfieldweekly.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.368

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fairfieldweekly.com

128 ms

www.ctnow.com

231 ms

370 ms

screen.min.css

12 ms

htlbid.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fairfieldweekly.com, 24% (22 requests) were made to Courant.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to P030.courant.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Fairfieldweekly.com main page is 2.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 92.6 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 92.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.5 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. Fairfieldweekly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 534.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 1.5 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 534.8 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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. Fairfieldweekly.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (86%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fairfieldweekly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fairfieldweekly.com accessibility score

87

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

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>).

High

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

SEO Factors

fairfieldweekly.com SEO score

84

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 Fairfieldweekly.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 Fairfieldweekly.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

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