Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

larchmontchronicle.com

Larchmont Chronicle

Page Load Speed

21.6 sec in total

First Response

681 ms

Resources Loaded

20.3 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

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About Website

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Larchmont Chronicle provides news about people, events, neighborhoods, entertainment, real estate, schools in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles

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Key Findings

We analyzed Larchmontchronicle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 681 ms and then it took 20.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

larchmontchronicle.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.484

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

larchmontchronicle.com

681 ms

style.css

117 ms

style-font.css

127 ms

style-responsive.css

123 ms

jquery-ui.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Larchmontchronicle.com, 70% (56 requests) were made to Chronicle.metagurl.netdna-cdn.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Acint.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.5 sec) relates to the external source .

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 454.3 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

707.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Larchmontchronicle.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 597.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

  • Original 80.2 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 65.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 597.1 kB
  • After minification 548.2 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. Larchmont Chronicle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 240.7 kB

  • Original 366.4 kB
  • After minification 345.0 kB
  • After compression 125.7 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 240.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Larchmontchronicle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (52%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Larchmont Chronicle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

larchmontchronicle.com accessibility score

90

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

larchmontchronicle.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

larchmontchronicle.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Larchmontchronicle.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 Larchmontchronicle.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 description is not detected on the main page of Larchmont Chronicle. 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: