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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% 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

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

gastowngazette.com

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

652 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gastowngazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gastowngazette.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,850 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gastowngazette.com

1949 ms

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28 ms

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53 ms

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96 ms

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94 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Gastowngazette.com, 13% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Gastowngazette.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gastowngazette.com main page is 3.1 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. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 158.8 kB

  • Original 174.7 kB
  • After minification 120.8 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 53.9 kB, which is 31% 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 158.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Gastown Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 300.6 kB
  • After minification 300.6 kB
  • After compression 280.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 146.7 kB
  • After minification 146.7 kB
  • After compression 121.4 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. Gastowngazette.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (41%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gastown 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 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gastowngazette.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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gastowngazette.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gastowngazette.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Gastowngazette.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 Gastowngazette.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 Gastown Gazette. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: