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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

provincetownindependent.org

The Provincetown Independent - Unchained news for Outer Cape Cod

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

676 ms

Page Rendered

547 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Provincetownindependent.org page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 1.2 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.

Performance Metrics

provincetownindependent.org performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.016

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Provincetownindependent.org, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (215 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Provincetownindependent.org main page is 3.8 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 120.5 kB

  • Original 148.2 kB
  • After minification 147.4 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. 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 120.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 98.6 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Provincetown Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 919 B

  • Original 140.3 kB
  • After minification 140.3 kB
  • After compression 139.4 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 175.4 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 169.8 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. Provincetownindependent.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (54%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

47

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Provincetown Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

provincetownindependent.org accessibility score

92

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

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

provincetownindependent.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

provincetownindependent.org SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Provincetownindependent.org 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 Provincetownindependent.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

provincetownindependent.org

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