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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

medianow.press

Media Now • High School Journalism Camp

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

739 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

478 ms

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About Website

Visit medianow.press now to see the best up-to-date Media Now content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about medianow.press

Intense training for high school journalism students ready to take their digital media skills to the next level. Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medianow.press page load time and found that the first response time was 739 ms and then it took 4.8 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

medianow.press performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.541

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medianow.press

739 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

style.css

45 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

41 ms

jquery.magnificpopup.min.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Medianow.press, 10% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (739 ms) belongs to the original domain Medianow.press.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medianow.press main page is 3.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 147.5 kB

  • Original 176.7 kB
  • After minification 170.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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 147.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Media Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 315.3 kB
  • After minification 315.3 kB
  • After compression 312.1 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 1.4 kB

  • Original 239.6 kB
  • After minification 239.5 kB
  • After compression 238.3 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. Medianow.press has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (55%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

medianow.press accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

medianow.press best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

medianow.press SEO score

82

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

Links are not crawlable

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 Medianow.press 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 Medianow.press 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

medianow.press

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Media Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: