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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

m.ithaca.com

ithaca.com | Ithaca Times | news, entertainment, arts, restaurants, classifieds, wineries, serving Ithaca and Tompkins County NY.

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Breaking News, Sports Arts and Entertainment information for Ithaca, NY powered by the Ithaca Times and the Finger Lakes Community Newspapers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.ithaca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 3.8 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

m.ithaca.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ithaca.com

78 ms

www.ithaca.com

180 ms

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136 ms

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172 ms

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141 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original M.ithaca.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Ithaca.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (778 ms) relates to the external source P.cityspark.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

798.8 kB

After Optimization

394.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.ithaca.com main page is 798.8 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. HTML takes 437.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 437.2 kB
  • After minification 368.3 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 68.9 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 381.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 161.5 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. M Ithaca images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 134.8 kB
  • After minification 134.8 kB
  • After compression 125.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 52.5 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. M.ithaca.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (61%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Ithaca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ithaca.com

ithaca.com

78 ms

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180 ms

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172 ms

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141 ms

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Accessibility Review

m.ithaca.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

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

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

m.ithaca.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

m.ithaca.com SEO score

89

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

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 M.ithaca.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 M.ithaca.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

m.ithaca.com

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