Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

onlinesentinel.com

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

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

678 ms

onlinesentinel.com screenshot

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...

Visit onlinesentinel.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Onlinesentinel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 147 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

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.centralmaine.com

147 ms

css

27 ms

css

64 ms

flexslider.css

193 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 222 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Onlinesentinel.com, 7% (15 requests) were made to Centralmaine.villagesoup.com and 6% (13 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Mainetoday-d.openx.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (26%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Onlinesentinel.com main page is 6.2 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. 85% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 345.0 kB

  • Original 432.0 kB
  • After minification 431.4 kB
  • After compression 87.0 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 345.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 165.2 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Online Sentinel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 844.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 401.2 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 844.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 275.5 kB

  • Original 330.5 kB
  • After minification 329.3 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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 needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 275.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (36%)

Requests Now

201

After Optimization

129

The browser has sent 201 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

onlinesentinel.com SEO score

0

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

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: