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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thegrapevine.theroot.com

Entertainment - The Grapevine - Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture | The Root

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegrapevine.theroot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegrapevine.theroot.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-grapevine

293 ms

gtm.js

544 ms

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1405 ms

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975 ms

gpt.js

975 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thegrapevine.theroot.com, 20% (12 requests) were made to I.kinja-img.com and 19% (11 requests) were made to Theroot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source X.kinja-static.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 759.1 kB (75%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

248.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thegrapevine.theroot.com main page is 1.0 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 540.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 383.9 kB

  • Original 441.3 kB
  • After minification 440.5 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 383.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 22.1 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. Obviously, The Grapevine Root needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 372.1 kB

  • Original 540.8 kB
  • After minification 540.3 kB
  • After compression 168.7 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 372.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (67%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Grapevine Root. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thegrapevine.theroot.com accessibility score

96

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

thegrapevine.theroot.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thegrapevine.theroot.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 Thegrapevine.theroot.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 Thegrapevine.theroot.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

thegrapevine.theroot.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Grapevine Root. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: