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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thegazette.com

The Gazette

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

554 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 10.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegazette.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value32,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thegazette.com

44 ms

styles-combined.css

15 ms

jquery-combined.js

49 ms

responsiveSection.min.css

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responsiveRotator.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 320 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Thegazette.com, 6% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 4% (14 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.1 sec) relates to the external source Banner.vrtzads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegazette.com main page is 3.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 200.0 kB

  • Original 249.5 kB
  • After minification 224.5 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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 200.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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 Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 882.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 638.5 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 882.1 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 224.4 kB

  • Original 294.3 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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. Thegazette.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 166 (69%)

Requests Now

240

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 240 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thegazette.com accessibility score

90

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

thegazette.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

thegazette.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

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegazette.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 Thegazette.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

thegazette.com

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