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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

nola.com

New Orleans, LA Local News, Breaking News, Sports | NOLA.com | New Orleans News, Sports and Entertainment

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nola.com page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 5.3 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

nola.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value68.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nola.com

22 ms

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Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Nola.com, 20% (24 requests) were made to Bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nola.com main page is 3.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 538.1 kB

  • Original 608.5 kB
  • After minification 529.6 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 78.8 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 538.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 108.2 kB
  • After minification 90.0 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. Obviously, NOLA needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 582.3 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 582.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 159.4 kB
  • After compression 131.6 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. Nola.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (78%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NOLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

nola.com accessibility score

82

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

nola.com best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nola.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

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

nola.com

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