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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

massachusettssun.com

Massachusetts Sun - Massachusetts News - Online Newspaper

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

891 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

533 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Massachusettssun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 891 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

massachusettssun.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,450 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.massachusettssun.com

891 ms

foundation.min.css

37 ms

white_style.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

45 ms

app.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Massachusettssun.com, 33% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 21% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (891 ms) belongs to the original domain Massachusettssun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Massachusettssun.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.6 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 29.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 985.6 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. Massachusetts Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 137.6 kB
  • After compression 135.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Massachusettssun.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (27%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Massachusetts 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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891 ms

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37 ms

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45 ms

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25 ms

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42 ms

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Accessibility Review

massachusettssun.com accessibility score

54

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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.

SEO Factors

massachusettssun.com SEO score

77

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

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 Massachusettssun.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 Massachusettssun.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

massachusettssun.com

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