Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

df-qa.seattletimes.com

The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Df-qa.seattletimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

df-qa.seattletimes.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

df-qa.seattletimes.com

152 ms

df-qa.seattletimes.com

4577 ms

htlbid.css

114 ms

lty1dar.css

34 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Df-qa.seattletimes.com, 15% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 12% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Df-qa.seattletimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.1 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

484.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Df-qa.seattletimes.com main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 603.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 510.7 kB

  • Original 603.6 kB
  • After minification 600.5 kB
  • After compression 92.9 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 510.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Df Qa Seattle Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 336.9 kB
  • After minification 336.9 kB
  • After compression 330.7 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 166 B

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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. Df-qa.seattletimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (85%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Df Qa Seattle Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

df-qa.seattletimes.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

df-qa.seattletimes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

df-qa.seattletimes.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Df-qa.seattletimes.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 Df-qa.seattletimes.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 description is not detected on the main page of Df Qa Seattle Times. 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: