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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

pilotcatholicnews.com

TheBostonPilot.com: America's oldest Catholic newspaper

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

986 ms

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About Website

Visit pilotcatholicnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Pilot Catholic News content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pilotcatholicnews.com

The Boston Pilot is a daily news Catholic newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts, covering news and opinion about the Catholic Church and Catholic life. We carry daily news from Boston, New England,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pilotcatholicnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 3.2 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

pilotcatholicnews.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pilotcatholicnews.com

162 ms

www.pilotcatholicnews.com

195 ms

index.html

198 ms

gtm.js

69 ms

bootstrap.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pilotcatholicnews.com, 70% (79 requests) were made to Thebostonpilot.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (972 ms) relates to the external source Thebostonpilot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 325.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pilotcatholicnews.com main page is 3.0 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. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 95.5 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 24.7 kB, which is 21% 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 103.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 144.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Pilot Catholic News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 433.2 kB
  • After minification 431.5 kB
  • After compression 364.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 69.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 50.9 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. Pilotcatholicnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (32%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pilot Catholic News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

pilotcatholicnews.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

pilotcatholicnews.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pilotcatholicnews.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Pilotcatholicnews.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 Pilotcatholicnews.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

pilotcatholicnews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pilot Catholic News. 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: