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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

countytimes.somd.com

The St. Mary's County Times & The Calvert County Times Southern Maryland Newspapers - Serving St. Mary's and Calvert Counties in Southern Maryland

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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The St. Mary's County Times and the Calvert County Times are locally owned and operated newspapers that serve St. Mary's and Calvert Counties in Southern Maryland respectively. Both papers are availab...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Countytimes.somd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 123 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

countytimes.somd.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

countytimes.somd.com

123 ms

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

std_header_footer.css

76 ms

countytimes.css

75 ms

css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Countytimes.somd.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Stats.somd.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Stats.somd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Countytimes.somd.com main page is 1.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 11.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. County Times Somd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 121 B

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 973 B

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Countytimes.somd.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of County Times Somd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

countytimes.somd.com

countytimes.somd.com

123 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

std_header_footer.css

std_header_footer.css

76 ms

countytimes.css

countytimes.css

75 ms

css

css

62 ms

css

css

76 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

90 ms

script.php

script.php

2395 ms

masthead-2014.png

masthead-2014.png

29 ms

frontpage-300-wide.png

frontpage-300-wide.png

121 ms

socg-300-wide.png

socg-300-wide.png

156 ms

2023-01-12_countytimes-senior.png

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179 ms

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2023-02-02-wedding-guide.png

107 ms

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2023-03-09-home-garden.png

158 ms

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2023-02-23-shop-local.png

219 ms

paper_box.jpg

paper_box.jpg

171 ms

somd-logo-sm.gif

somd-logo-sm.gif

182 ms

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196 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

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TK3_WkUHHAIjg75cFRf3bXL8LICs1xZosUZiYA.ttf

22 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

26 ms

server.php

server.php

46 ms

Accessibility Review

countytimes.somd.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

countytimes.somd.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

countytimes.somd.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Countytimes.somd.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 Countytimes.somd.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

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