Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

lamag.com

LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles

Page Load Speed

15 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

11.5 sec

lamag.com screenshot

About Website

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Los Angeles magazine is the definitive resource on the people, food, culture, arts & entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, & Los Angeles news that defines L.A.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lamag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 15 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lamag.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value45.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,370 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lamag.com

45 ms

www.lamag.com

123 ms

buddypress.min.css

58 ms

style.css

180 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 169 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Lamag.com, 5% (9 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (482 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (18%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Lamag.com main page is 7.1 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. 85% 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. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 216.5 kB

  • Original 303.1 kB
  • After minification 302.9 kB
  • After compression 86.6 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 216.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. LAmag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 740.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 392.2 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 740.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 219.8 kB

  • Original 298.9 kB
  • After minification 297.5 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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. Lamag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (52%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

78

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LAmag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lamag.com accessibility score

81

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

lamag.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

lamag.com SEO score

90

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