Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

mainetoday.com

Do This - Portland Press Herald

Page Load Speed

173.7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

123 sec

Page Rendered

49.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mainetoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 172.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 7 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

mainetoday.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mainetoday.com

1397 ms

css

128 ms

css

212 ms

css

434 ms

mainetoday-style-v1.5.css

1030 ms

Our browser made a total of 329 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Mainetoday.com, 15% (50 requests) were made to I.pinimg.com and 7% (22 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 MB (14%)

Content Size

27.7 MB

After Optimization

23.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Mainetoday.com main page is 27.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 22.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 219.4 kB

  • Original 267.1 kB
  • After minification 260.6 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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 219.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 430.4 kB

  • Original 22.7 MB
  • After minification 22.3 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. Mainetoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.8 MB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.8 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 372.2 kB

  • Original 445.5 kB
  • After minification 424.5 kB
  • After compression 73.2 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. Mainetoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 372.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 158 (54%)

Requests Now

290

After Optimization

132

The browser has sent 290 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mainetoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 111 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mainetoday.com accessibility score

86

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

Best Practices

mainetoday.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mainetoday.com SEO score

93

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

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

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 Mainetoday.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 Mainetoday.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 Mainetoday. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: