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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

granitequill.com

Granite Quill Publishing | Publisher of The Messenger, IN New Hampshire, Golden Granite, and NH Homes & Home Improvement | Hillsborough, NH

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

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About Website

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Publishers of: The Messenger - your local weekly newspaper since 1868 • IN New Hampshire - what\'s happening in the granite state Golden Granite - a guide for active seniors • NH Homes & Home Imp...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Granitequill.com page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 5.6 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

granitequill.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

granitequill.com

151 ms

granitequill.com

1891 ms

style.css

77 ms

style.css

175 ms

widget.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Granitequill.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Granitequill.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

372.0 kB

After Optimization

349.3 kB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Granitequill.com main page is 372.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 269.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 94 B

  • Original 269.1 kB
  • After minification 269.0 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. Granite Quill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 83.9 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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 12.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Granitequill.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (65%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Granite Quill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

granitequill.com

granitequill.com

151 ms

granitequill.com

granitequill.com

1891 ms

style.css

style.css

77 ms

style.css

style.css

175 ms

widget.css

widget.css

248 ms

style.css

style.css

480 ms

styles.css

styles.css

459 ms

style.css

style.css

300 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

378 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

300 ms

stray_ajax.js

stray_ajax.js

70 ms

jquery.hoverintent.js

jquery.hoverintent.js

351 ms

jquery.superfish.js

jquery.superfish.js

384 ms

k2.functions.js

k2.functions.js

374 ms

jquery.bbq.js

jquery.bbq.js

436 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

457 ms

jquery.ui.js

jquery.ui.js

490 ms

k2.slider.js

k2.slider.js

489 ms

jquery.hotkeys.js

jquery.hotkeys.js

502 ms

k2.livesearch.js

k2.livesearch.js

536 ms

k2.rollingarchives.js

k2.rollingarchives.js

531 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

569 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

14 ms

ctct-plugin-frontend.min.js

ctct-plugin-frontend.min.js

561 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

582 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

582 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

610 ms

e-202436.js

e-202436.js

29 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

18 ms

stray_ajax.js

stray_ajax.js

544 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

518 ms

ga.js

ga.js

102 ms

feed-icon32x32.png

feed-icon32x32.png

122 ms

body-bg.jpg

body-bg.jpg

91 ms

rotate.php

rotate.php

2803 ms

bigLogo-fade.png

bigLogo-fade.png

90 ms

mess-cover-2.jpg

mess-cover-2.jpg

115 ms

senior-cover.jpg

senior-cover.jpg

169 ms

IN-NH-cover-Dec-2020.jpg

IN-NH-cover-Dec-2020.jpg

158 ms

home-cov.jpg

home-cov.jpg

187 ms

bride-cov.jpg

bride-cov.jpg

190 ms

xmas-cover.jpg

xmas-cover.jpg

185 ms

reset-fff.png

reset-fff.png

78 ms

spinner.gif

spinner.gif

90 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

mess-cover-2.jpg

mess-cover-2.jpg

191 ms

IN-NH-cover-Dec-2020.jpg

IN-NH-cover-Dec-2020.jpg

185 ms

senior-cover.jpg

senior-cover.jpg

78 ms

xmas-cover.jpg

xmas-cover.jpg

132 ms

home-cov.jpg

home-cov.jpg

134 ms

bride-cov.jpg

bride-cov.jpg

139 ms

Accessibility Review

granitequill.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

granitequill.com best practices score

50

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

granitequill.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Granitequill.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 Granitequill.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

granitequill.com

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