Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

mysuburbanlife.com

My Suburban Life: DuPage and suburban Cook County news

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

571 ms

mysuburbanlife.com screenshot

About Website

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My Suburban Life features local news, sports, events, business news, local government news and more for DuPage County, western Cook County, Downers Grove, Berwyn, Wheaton, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn, La Gra...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mysuburbanlife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 3.4 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

mysuburbanlife.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value76.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mysuburbanlife.com

57 ms

174 ms

gtm.js

148 ms

js

307 ms

tag.js

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mysuburbanlife.com, 14% (17 requests) were made to Shawlocal.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Cdn59755463.blazingcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 474.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Mysuburbanlife.com main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 236.5 kB

  • Original 285.3 kB
  • After minification 283.9 kB
  • After compression 48.8 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 236.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 109.4 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. My Suburban Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 684.4 kB
  • After minification 684.4 kB
  • After compression 564.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 119.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 57.2 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. Mysuburbanlife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (67%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Suburban Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mysuburbanlife.com accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

mysuburbanlife.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mysuburbanlife.com SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mysuburbanlife.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 Mysuburbanlife.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My Suburban Life. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: