Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

herald-leader.com

Lexington KY Breaking News & Sports | Lexington Herald Leader

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

983 ms

herald-leader.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herald-leader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herald-leader.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

herald-leader.com

99 ms

www.herald-leader.com

107 ms

www.kentucky.com

32 ms

dtagent61_bxzjnpr2s3_8191.js

14 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 329 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Herald-leader.com, 17% (57 requests) were made to Kentucky.com and 7% (23 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (759 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (49%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Herald-leader.com main page is 5.3 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 192.0 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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 159.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 372.6 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Herald Leader needs image optimization as it can save up to 372.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 936.4 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 1.5 MB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 560.4 kB

  • Original 690.1 kB
  • After minification 686.6 kB
  • After compression 129.7 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. Herald-leader.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 560.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 185 (67%)

Requests Now

277

After Optimization

92

The browser has sent 277 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald Leader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 74 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

herald-leader.com accessibility score

80

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 are not valid or misspelled

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

herald-leader.com SEO score

86

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

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 Herald-leader.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 Herald-leader.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 description is not detected on the main page of Herald Leader. 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: