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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

mississippifreepress.org

Mississippi Free Press - Solutions Journalism - Beyond Partisanship

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

Visit mississippifreepress.org now to see the best up-to-date Mississippi Free Press content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mississippifreepress.org

The Mississippi Free Press is a nonprofit media outlet devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mississippifreepress.org page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mississippifreepress.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value48.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value43.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value63,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value79.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Mississippifreepress.org, 38% (59 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 13% (20 requests) were made to Ucarecdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 819.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mississippifreepress.org main page is 8.7 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 331.2 kB

  • Original 400.1 kB
  • After minification 386.6 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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 331.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Mississippi Free Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 475.9 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 554.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 475.9 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 79.1 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. Mississippifreepress.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (37%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mississippi Free Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

mississippifreepress.org accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

mississippifreepress.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mississippifreepress.org SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mississippifreepress.org 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 Mississippifreepress.org 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

mississippifreepress.org

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