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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

meetingnews.com

Meetings Industry News, Events, Education & Destination Planning | Northstar Meetings Group

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Meeting News content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about meetingnews.com

Northstar Meetings Group is the premier online platform for business and sports event organizers, planners and incentive program professionals across all sectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meetingnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meetingnews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,190 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.346

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.northstarmeetingsgroup.com

254 ms

style.css

245 ms

ntmserve.min.js

127 ms

adsbygoogle.js

124 ms

js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Meetingnews.com, 18% (16 requests) were made to Northstarmeetingsgroup.com and 12% (11 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (366 ms) relates to the external source Northstarmeetingsgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meetingnews.com 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 115.9 kB
  • After minification 105.9 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 96.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 143.6 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Meeting News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 340.5 kB
  • After minification 340.5 kB
  • After compression 338.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 119 B

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. Meetingnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (37%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meeting News. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

meetingnews.com accessibility score

88

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

meetingnews.com best practices score

75

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

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

meetingnews.com SEO score

90

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

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 Meetingnews.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 Meetingnews.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

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