Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

montrealnews.net

Independent Montreal News Service | Montreal News.Net

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

235 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

723 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Montrealnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 235 ms and then it took 4.5 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

montrealnews.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

montrealnews.net

235 ms

www.montrealnews.net

379 ms

style.css

204 ms

scripts.js

353 ms

nmedianet.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Montrealnews.net, 8% (15 requests) were made to Oilprice.com and 8% (15 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Montrealnews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 885.8 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

761.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Montrealnews.net main page is 1.6 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 78.6 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 78.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 431.3 kB
  • After minification 391.9 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. Montreal News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 750.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 348.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 750.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Montrealnews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 114 (67%)

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Montreal 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 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

montrealnews.net accessibility score

50

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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.

Best Practices

montrealnews.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

montrealnews.net SEO score

86

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

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

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 Montrealnews.net 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 Montrealnews.net 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

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