Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blogs.the-dispatch.com

The Dispatch: Local News, Politics & Sports in Lexington, NC

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

972 ms

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.the-dispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.the-dispatch.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.the-dispatch.com

238 ms

www.the-dispatch.com

183 ms

f62ef1a4-0739-4801-a550-c1caa54685c3-railroad1.jpg

154 ms

main-q1a2z31ba2da79.min.js

60 ms

9b377b17-c5b2-4f87-9c9a-5414815f48d2-1001_Clemson_football_vs_NC_State_pregame_1601.JPG

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.the-dispatch.com, 63% (5 requests) were made to Gannett-cdn.com and 25% (2 requests) were made to The-dispatch.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) belongs to the original domain Blogs.the-dispatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

260.8 kB

After Optimization

154.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.the-dispatch.com main page is 260.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 159.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 159.9 kB
  • After minification 159.9 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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 106.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 100.9 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. Blogs The Dispatch images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs The Dispatch. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

blogs.the-dispatch.com accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

blogs.the-dispatch.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.the-dispatch.com SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.the-dispatch.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 Blogs.the-dispatch.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 data is detected on the main page of Blogs The Dispatch. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: