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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

suntimesnews.com

Sun Times News Online – Serving Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois

Page Load Speed

21.4 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

20.9 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Suntimesnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 21.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

suntimesnews.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

suntimesnews.com

254 ms

style.css

74 ms

image-1432762-10397158

70 ms

tplimage

163 ms

show

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Suntimesnews.com, 12% (3 requests) were made to Ad.linksynergy.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Top10links.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Service.bfast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

62.5 kB

After Optimization

38.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Suntimesnews.com main page is 62.5 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 5.4 kB, which is 22% 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 19.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 32.7 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. Sun Times News images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 680 B

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. Suntimesnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

suntimesnews.com

suntimesnews.com

254 ms

style.css

style.css

74 ms

image-1432762-10397158

image-1432762-10397158

70 ms

tplimage

tplimage

163 ms

show

show

82 ms

image-1432762-9930158

image-1432762-9930158

73 ms

88x31-fif.gif

88x31-fif.gif

150 ms

banner.png

banner.png

333 ms

serve

serve

20471 ms

image-1432762-10379998

image-1432762-10379998

72 ms

image-1432762-2202639

image-1432762-2202639

70 ms

counter.php

counter.php

242 ms

orangegradient.JPG

orangegradient.JPG

72 ms

classicrockthumb.jpg

classicrockthumb.jpg

183 ms

ksgm980com.png

ksgm980com.png

185 ms

amazongntoday100x30.gif

amazongntoday100x30.gif

199 ms

hs24050.gif

hs24050.gif

203 ms

cardinalsbaseball.gif

cardinalsbaseball.gif

199 ms

stimeslogonew.gif

stimeslogonew.gif

204 ms

citybuttonfn.gif

citybuttonfn.gif

210 ms

show

show

63 ms

show

show

61 ms

10397158-1417795513541

10397158-1417795513541

183 ms

9930158-1417791050752

9930158-1417791050752

163 ms

88x31-fif.gif

88x31-fif.gif

101 ms

roziers-grocery.gif

roziers-grocery.gif

61 ms

Accessibility Review

suntimesnews.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

suntimesnews.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

suntimesnews.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Suntimesnews.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 Suntimesnews.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

suntimesnews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sun Times 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: