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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

obits.roanoke.com

Today's Roanoke Times Obituaries

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Obits Roanoke content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about obits.roanoke.com

Find Roanoke Times Obituaries and death notices from Roanoke, VA funeral homes and newspapers. Discover the latest obits this week, including today's.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Obits.roanoke.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 3 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

obits.roanoke.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value41.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

obituaries

68 ms

roanoke

54 ms

today

83 ms

op.js

147 ms

launchpad-liveramp.js

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Obits.roanoke.com, 23% (17 requests) were made to Cache.legacy.net and 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (453 ms) relates to the external source Legacy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 380.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Obits.roanoke.com main page is 4.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 251.5 kB

  • Original 311.4 kB
  • After minification 311.3 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. 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 251.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 126.2 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Obits Roanoke images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 866.8 kB
  • After minification 866.8 kB
  • After compression 863.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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. Obits.roanoke.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (38%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Obits Roanoke. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Create

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Accessibility Review

obits.roanoke.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

obits.roanoke.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

obits.roanoke.com SEO score

85

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

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 Obits.roanoke.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 Obits.roanoke.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

obits.roanoke.com

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