Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

mychesco.com

MyChesCo - Chester County's Daily Local News and Community Website

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

515 ms

Page Rendered

497 ms

mychesco.com screenshot

About Website

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Local news and information for Chester County, Pennsylvania. Get local news headlines, weather, traffic, entertainment, lifestyle and more on MyChesCo.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mychesco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mychesco.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mychesco.com

31 ms

www.mychesco.com

51 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

57 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Mychesco.com, 46% (26 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

881.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Mychesco.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 546.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 216.2 kB

  • Original 296.5 kB
  • After minification 282.1 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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 216.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11 B

  • Original 546.0 kB
  • After minification 546.0 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. My Ches Co images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 189.5 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 175.6 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 94.1 kB
  • After minification 94.1 kB
  • After compression 79.4 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. Mychesco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.7 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (46%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Ches Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mychesco.com accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

mychesco.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mychesco.com 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 Mychesco.com 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 Mychesco.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

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