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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gulfcoastnewstoday.com

Local News in Baldwin County and across the Alabama Gulf Coast - Gulf Coast Media

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

939 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulfcoastnewstoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gulfcoastnewstoday.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gulfcoastnewstoday.com

102 ms

gulfcoastmedia.com

180 ms

jquery.min.js

44 ms

bootstrap.min.css

57 ms

cq_base_beta.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gulfcoastnewstoday.com, 30% (34 requests) were made to Gulfcoastbanners.creativecirclemedia.com and 27% (31 requests) were made to Beta.creativecirclecdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (501 ms) relates to the external source Beta.creativecirclecdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gulfcoastnewstoday.com main page is 3.7 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. 75% 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 131.9 kB

  • Original 165.4 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 131.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Gulf Coast News Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 167.7 kB
  • After minification 167.1 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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 41.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 28.3 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Gulfcoastnewstoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (55%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf Coast News Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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102 ms

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Accessibility Review

gulfcoastnewstoday.com accessibility score

79

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gulfcoastnewstoday.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gulfcoastnewstoday.com SEO score

85

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

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 Gulfcoastnewstoday.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 Gulfcoastnewstoday.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

gulfcoastnewstoday.com

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