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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

media.indypgh.org

Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media.indypgh.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.9 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

media.indypgh.org performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

media.indypgh.org

1837 ms

layout.css

126 ms

imc_article.gif

2885 ms

masthead_140.png

187 ms

imc_article.gif

382 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Media.indypgh.org, 14% (3 requests) were made to Pittsburgh.indymedia.org and 14% (3 requests) were made to Indypgh.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Pittsburgh.indymedia.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.3 kB (21%)

Content Size

256.5 kB

After Optimization

202.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Media.indypgh.org main page is 256.5 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 208.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 30.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 208.6 kB
  • After minification 192.1 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. Media Indypgh images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Media.indypgh.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (55%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media Indypgh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

media.indypgh.org

media.indypgh.org

1837 ms

layout.css

layout.css

126 ms

imc_article.gif

imc_article.gif

2885 ms

masthead_140.png

masthead_140.png

187 ms

imc_article.gif

imc_article.gif

382 ms

imc_photo.gif

imc_photo.gif

149 ms

imc_video.gif

imc_video.gif

131 ms

imc_audio.gif

imc_audio.gif

174 ms

publish_silver.gif

publish_silver.gif

543 ms

imc_audio.gif

imc_audio.gif

2883 ms

imc_photo.gif

imc_photo.gif

2881 ms

xml.gif

xml.gif

145 ms

little_indymedia.png

little_indymedia.png

560 ms

masthead_140.png

masthead_140.png

1795 ms

imc_web.gif

imc_web.gif

151 ms

theresa-chuckd.jpegmid.jpeg

theresa-chuckd.jpegmid.jpeg

731 ms

imc_article.gif

imc_article.gif

1734 ms

noflash.gif

noflash.gif

1795 ms

imc_audio.gif

imc_audio.gif

1733 ms

g-infinty-thumb.jpg

g-infinty-thumb.jpg

599 ms

wrench.jpg

wrench.jpg

145 ms

www.indymedia.us

www.indymedia.us

587 ms

Accessibility Review

media.indypgh.org accessibility score

49

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

media.indypgh.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

media.indypgh.org SEO score

46

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Media.indypgh.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Media.indypgh.org 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

media.indypgh.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Media Indypgh. 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: