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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thedailyme.com

TheDailyME.com Central Maine News & photos

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

750 ms

Page Rendered

354 ms

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About Website

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The Daily ME: Central Maine's Local on-line newspaper

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedailyme.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedailyme.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedailyme.com

162 ms

hw3.cgi

602 ms

dailyme6.jpg

141 ms

flower.gif

138 ms

new2.gif

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Thedailyme.com, 44% (19 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 16% (7 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (602 ms) relates to the external source Weatherforyou.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.3 kB (51%)

Content Size

556.8 kB

After Optimization

275.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thedailyme.com main page is 556.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 347.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 80.9 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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 55.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 128.9 kB
  • After minification 126.3 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. The DailyME images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 223.3 kB

  • Original 347.0 kB
  • After minification 347.0 kB
  • After compression 123.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 223.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (36%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The DailyME. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thedailyme.com

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162 ms

hw3.cgi

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602 ms

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141 ms

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138 ms

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138 ms

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139 ms

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6 ms

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15 ms

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130 ms

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133 ms

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40 ms

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32 ms

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240 ms

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Accessibility Review

thedailyme.com accessibility score

58

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thedailyme.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

thedailyme.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedailyme.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 Thedailyme.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

thedailyme.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The DailyME. 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: