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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

onlinesentinel.com

Central Maine news, sports & weather from Augusta to Waterville| The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME and Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

883 ms

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About Website

Visit onlinesentinel.com now to see the best up-to-date Online Sentinel content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about onlinesentinel.com

Features news from the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine and Morning Sentinel of Waterville, Maine. Serves Augusta, Hallowell, Manchester, Waterville and the Northern Kennebec Valley of central Maine...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Onlinesentinel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

onlinesentinel.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value36.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.53

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

onlinesentinel.com

31 ms

www.centralmaine.com

42 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

15 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

19 ms

related-posts-block-styles.min.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Onlinesentinel.com, 63% (76 requests) were made to Centralmaine.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Bc.centralmaine.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Dev.mainetodaymedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 716.3 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Onlinesentinel.com main page is 2.3 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 255.0 kB

  • Original 304.4 kB
  • After minification 290.1 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. 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 255.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 665.1 kB
  • After minification 587.8 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, Online Sentinel needs image optimization as it can save up to 77.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 381.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 857.8 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 381.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 115.3 kB
  • After minification 115.3 kB
  • After compression 112.8 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. Onlinesentinel.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (78%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online Sentinel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

onlinesentinel.com

onlinesentinel.com

31 ms

www.centralmaine.com

www.centralmaine.com

42 ms

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15 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

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19 ms

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20 ms

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48 ms

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54 ms

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67 ms

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87 ms

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76 ms

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75 ms

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139 ms

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140 ms

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141 ms

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140 ms

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142 ms

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143 ms

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144 ms

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143 ms

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144 ms

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146 ms

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20 ms

Accessibility Review

onlinesentinel.com accessibility score

69

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

onlinesentinel.com best practices score

58

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

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

onlinesentinel.com SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

onlinesentinel.com

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