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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

lvsun.com

Las Vegas Sun Newspaper - Southern Nevada News, Sports, Politics, Entertainment & Opinions - Las Vegas Sun News

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

374 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Lv Sun content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lvsun.com

Southern Nevada's award-winning source for news, sports, politics, entertainment and opinion; locally owned and independent since 1950

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lvsun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 374 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lvsun.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.294

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lasvegassun.com

374 ms

css

26 ms

main-1452545185510.css

53 ms

css

52 ms

vr_home-1.0.8.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Lvsun.com, 16% (16 requests) were made to Media.lasvegasweekly.com and 14% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (374 ms) relates to the external source Lasvegassun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 952.7 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

698.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lvsun.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 172.0 kB
  • After minification 171.8 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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 124.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 255.8 kB
  • After minification 253.2 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. Lv Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 663.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 361.7 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 663.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 161.8 kB

  • Original 198.0 kB
  • After minification 195.0 kB
  • After compression 36.2 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. Lvsun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (41%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lv Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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26 ms

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Accessibility Review

lvsun.com accessibility score

80

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

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>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

lvsun.com 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

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

SEO Factors

lvsun.com SEO score

81

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lvsun.com 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 Lvsun.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

lvsun.com

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