Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

pantagraph.com

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Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

631 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pantagraph.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pantagraph.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.878

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pantagraph.com

79 ms

pantagraph.com

179 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

77 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

96 ms

lee.ds.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Pantagraph.com, 33% (25 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 573.0 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

615.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Pantagraph.com main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 571.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 520.2 kB

  • Original 571.9 kB
  • After minification 469.4 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 102.4 kB, which is 18% 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 520.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 14.7 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. Pantagraph images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 522.3 kB
  • After minification 522.2 kB
  • After compression 485.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. Pantagraph.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (75%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pantagraph. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pantagraph.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

SEO Factors

pantagraph.com SEO score

90

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

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 Pantagraph.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 Pantagraph.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 Pantagraph. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: