Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

texarkananews.com

TexarkanaNews.com - Breaking TXK News for Texarkana and the Four States

Page Load Speed

24.6 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

21.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Texarkananews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 24.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

texarkananews.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

texarkananews.com

106 ms

texarkananews.com

82 ms

www.texarkananews.com

634 ms

270 ms

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366 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Texarkananews.com, 47% (26 requests) were made to Blogger.googleusercontent.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Blogger.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 662.3 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

656.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Texarkananews.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 692.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 339.7 kB

  • Original 441.8 kB
  • After minification 441.7 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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 339.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 935 B

  • Original 184.6 kB
  • After minification 183.7 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. Texarkana News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 321.7 kB

  • Original 692.8 kB
  • After minification 692.8 kB
  • After compression 371.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 321.7 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (29%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Texarkana News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

texarkananews.com accessibility score

93

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

texarkananews.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

texarkananews.com SEO score

90

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

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 Texarkananews.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 Texarkananews.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 Texarkana News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: