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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

stateimpact.npr.org

NPR StateImpact: Issues That Matter. Close To Home.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

768 ms

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

Visit stateimpact.npr.org now to see the best up-to-date State Impact NPR content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stateimpact.npr.org

StateImpact is a collaboration between NPR and member stations in eight pilot states to provide broadcast and online coverage of how public policy affects people’s lives. The project will launch one n...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stateimpact.npr.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Stateimpact.npr.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

stateimpact.npr.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.228

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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15 ms

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44 ms

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7 ms

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135 ms

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15 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Stateimpact.npr.org, 30% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (298 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 429.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stateimpact.npr.org main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 23.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. State Impact NPR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 114.9 kB

  • Original 192.6 kB
  • After minification 169.6 kB
  • After compression 77.8 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 114.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 224.4 kB

  • Original 250.6 kB
  • After minification 206.3 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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. Stateimpact.npr.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of State Impact NPR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

stateimpact.npr.org accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

stateimpact.npr.org best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stateimpact.npr.org SEO score

81

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stateimpact.npr.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Stateimpact.npr.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

stateimpact.npr.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of State Impact NPR. 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: