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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

lowellsun.com

Lowellsun.com covers local news and community news in Lowell, Dracut, Chelmsford, Tyngsboro, Tewksbury, Billerica, Westford, Littleton, Wilmington, Co...

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

643 ms

lowellsun.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to lowellsun.com homepage info - get ready to check Lowellsun best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about lowellsun.com

Lowell Sun: Breaking news, local news, local business, community news, police, arrest log, The Column, local politic, high school sports, local sports, prom, graduation, photos, videos.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowellsun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms 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

lowellsun.com performance score

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Measured Metrics

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value25,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.896

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value58.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Lowellsun.com, 14% (20 requests) were made to Cdn59755463.blazingcdn.net and 7% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 509.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lowellsun.com main page is 3.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 244.1 kB
  • After minification 233.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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 197.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 219.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Lowellsun needs image optimization as it can save up to 219.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 86.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 242.9 kB
  • After minification 242.9 kB
  • After compression 237.6 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. Lowellsun.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (68%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lowellsun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

lowellsun.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

SEO Factors

lowellsun.com SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Lowellsun.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 Lowellsun.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

lowellsun.com

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