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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

metro.us

Metro Philadelphia - Metro Philadelphia

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

metro.us screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metro.us page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metro.us performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metro.us

8 ms

www.metro.us

21 ms

all.min.css

77 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

73 ms

js

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Metro.us, 10% (9 requests) were made to Amny.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Metrophiladelphia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (551 ms) relates to the external source In.getclicky.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metro.us main page is 6.9 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 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 119.7 kB

  • Original 143.6 kB
  • After minification 137.9 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. 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 119.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Metro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

  • Original 915.4 kB
  • After minification 910.9 kB
  • After compression 693.0 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 222.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. Metro.us has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (39%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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8 ms

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21 ms

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77 ms

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73 ms

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127 ms

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126 ms

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185 ms

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215 ms

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38 ms

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73 ms

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310 ms

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150 ms

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180 ms

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182 ms

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Accessibility Review

metro.us accessibility score

96

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

metro.us best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

metro.us SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

metro.us

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