Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theamericantribune.home.blog

The American Tribune – Life, liberty and the pursuit of journalism.

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

764 ms

Page Rendered

383 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theamericantribune.home.blog page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theamericantribune.home.blog performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theamericantribune.home.blog

11 ms

theamericantribune.home.blog

251 ms

webfont.js

119 ms

118 ms

style.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Theamericantribune.home.blog, 15% (6 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Theamericantribune.home.blog.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.8 kB (25%)

Content Size

356.6 kB

After Optimization

267.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Theamericantribune.home.blog main page is 356.6 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. 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. Javascripts take 163.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 87.7 kB

  • Original 116.5 kB
  • After minification 113.7 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. 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 87.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 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. The American Tribune Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 904 B

  • Original 163.5 kB
  • After minification 163.5 kB
  • After compression 162.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Theamericantribune.home.blog has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (63%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The American Tribune Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theamericantribune.home.blog accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

theamericantribune.home.blog 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theamericantribune.home.blog SEO score

93

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

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 Theamericantribune.home.blog 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 Theamericantribune.home.blog 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 data is detected on the main page of The American Tribune Home. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: