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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

theithacan.org

The Ithacan – The Student News Site of Ithaca College

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

341 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

681 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theithacan.org page load time and found that the first response time was 341 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theithacan.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.472

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theithacan.org

341 ms

bootstrap.min.css

13 ms

font-awesome.min.css

22 ms

style.css

25 ms

gss.css

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theithacan.org, 39% (45 requests) were made to Tnuqq21kt870t8n1egkbrmbr.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Dsum-sec.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (341 ms) belongs to the original domain Theithacan.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (23%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theithacan.org main page is 5.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 247.3 kB

  • Original 279.0 kB
  • After minification 267.4 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 247.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 226.8 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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 Ithacan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 641.8 kB

  • Original 893.8 kB
  • After minification 868.6 kB
  • After compression 252.0 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 641.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 131.0 kB

  • Original 159.6 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. Theithacan.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (55%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Ithacan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theithacan.org

theithacan.org

341 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

13 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

22 ms

style.css

style.css

25 ms

gss.css

gss.css

11 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

41 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

20 ms

jquery.cycle2.center.min.js

jquery.cycle2.center.min.js

23 ms

jquery.cycle2.carousel.min.js

jquery.cycle2.carousel.min.js

55 ms

gss.js

gss.js

57 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

81 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

55 ms

jquery.bxslider.js

jquery.bxslider.js

92 ms

ithacan-home.js

ithacan-home.js

93 ms

bigslide.min.js

bigslide.min.js

90 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

93 ms

ithacan.js

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88 ms

youtube.js

youtube.js

97 ms

shareaholic.js

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183 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

198 ms

logo.png

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136 ms

logo.png

logo.png

136 ms

SC-feature.jpg

SC-feature.jpg

148 ms

Featured-for-slide-show_Lauren-Ruth.jpg

Featured-for-slide-show_Lauren-Ruth.jpg

140 ms

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136 ms

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140 ms

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137 ms

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150 ms

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136 ms

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155 ms

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140 ms

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141 ms

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142 ms

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144 ms

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143 ms

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144 ms

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146 ms

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154 ms

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152 ms

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147 ms

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146 ms

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149 ms

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135 ms

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35 ms

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36 ms

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121 ms

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126 ms

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120 ms

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29 ms

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110 ms

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55 ms

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210 ms

xd_arbiter.php

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294 ms

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134 ms

pageview.gif

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49 ms

vglnk.js

vglnk.js

39 ms

partners.js

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27 ms

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37 ms

sholic.js

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33 ms

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237 ms

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50 ms

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120 ms

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7 ms

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6 ms

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33 ms

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20 ms

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81 ms

Accessibility Review

theithacan.org accessibility score

59

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

theithacan.org best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theithacan.org SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theithacan.org 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 Theithacan.org 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

theithacan.org

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