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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

houstonnews.net

Houston News.Net | News as it happens in Houston, Tx

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

722 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houstonnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houstonnews.net performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houstonnews.net

248 ms

www.houstonnews.net

364 ms

style_tall_header.css

256 ms

scripts.js

245 ms

nmedianet.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Houstonnews.net, 13% (16 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net and 12% (15 requests) were made to Oilprice.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (611 ms) relates to the external source Oilprice.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 767.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

417.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houstonnews.net main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 958.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.7 kB

  • Original 98.6 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 80.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 107.1 kB
  • After minification 98.5 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. Houston News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 661.6 kB

  • Original 958.1 kB
  • After minification 954.2 kB
  • After compression 296.5 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 661.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Houstonnews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (74%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

houstonnews.net

houstonnews.net

248 ms

www.houstonnews.net

www.houstonnews.net

364 ms

style_tall_header.css

style_tall_header.css

256 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

245 ms

nmedianet.js

nmedianet.js

23 ms

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611 ms

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608 ms

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273 ms

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420 ms

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273 ms

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608 ms

buttons.js

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9 ms

loader.js

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11 ms

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607 ms

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165 ms

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23 ms

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146 ms

prompt_embed_static.js

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42 ms

btn_facebook.png

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343 ms

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343 ms

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391 ms

btn_rss.png

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392 ms

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392 ms

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394 ms

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397 ms

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51 ms

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49 ms

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119 ms

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43 ms

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53 ms

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136 ms

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23 ms

Accessibility Review

houstonnews.net accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

houstonnews.net best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

houstonnews.net SEO score

86

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

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 Houstonnews.net 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 Houstonnews.net 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

houstonnews.net

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