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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

themonitor.net

Mabank Monitor and Lake Area Leader |

Page Load Speed

22.4 sec in total

First Response

3.9 sec

Resources Loaded

17.6 sec

Page Rendered

944 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themonitor.net page load time and found that the first response time was 3.9 sec and then it took 18.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themonitor.net performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.59

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themonitor.net

3866 ms

style.css

120 ms

style.css

159 ms

jquery.js

340 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Themonitor.net, 8% (4 requests) were made to Cedarcreeklake.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Farm8.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Themonitor.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 390.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

971.2 kB

After Optimization

580.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themonitor.net main page is 971.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 500.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 27.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 500.3 kB
  • After minification 459.9 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 Monitor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 186.9 kB

  • Original 271.8 kB
  • After minification 260.5 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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 186.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 135.7 kB

  • Original 159.4 kB
  • After minification 125.7 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Themonitor.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 135.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (45%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Monitor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

themonitor.net

themonitor.net

3866 ms

style.css

style.css

120 ms

style.css

style.css

159 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

340 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

160 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

160 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

12559 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

169 ms

general.js

general.js

174 ms

water_level_widget.js

water_level_widget.js

135 ms

netweatherV2ex.asp

netweatherV2ex.asp

163 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

144 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

311 ms

@CCLMonitor.json

@CCLMonitor.json

333 ms

div%3E%3Cdiv%20id=

div%3E%3Cdiv%20id=

638 ms

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517133334968800.3165.1645656081.png

1167 ms

bgr_body.png

bgr_body.png

528 ms

bgr_menu_dot.png

bgr_menu_dot.png

88 ms

bgr_search_box.png

bgr_search_box.png

89 ms

btn_search.png

btn_search.png

92 ms

clickhere2.jpg

clickhere2.jpg

535 ms

clickhere-tribune.jpg

clickhere-tribune.jpg

536 ms

ico_rss.png

ico_rss.png

524 ms

ico_fb.png

ico_fb.png

527 ms

bgr_slider.png

bgr_slider.png

526 ms

btn_black.png

btn_black.png

532 ms

Eustace-baseball-team-pic-300x121.jpg

Eustace-baseball-team-pic-300x121.jpg

537 ms

bgr_slider_nav.png

bgr_slider_nav.png

633 ms

bgr_main_content.png

bgr_main_content.png

635 ms

bgr_main_content_top.png

bgr_main_content_top.png

633 ms

bgr_date.png

bgr_date.png

631 ms

bgr_dots.png

bgr_dots.png

629 ms

twitt.gif

twitt.gif

633 ms

HAVERLY-Obit-239x300.jpg

HAVERLY-Obit-239x300.jpg

723 ms

bgr_sidebar_title.png

bgr_sidebar_title.png

707 ms

Editor-Sports-e1438284017292.jpg

Editor-Sports-e1438284017292.jpg

713 ms

Sports-Writer-Help-Wanted-e1438284565735.jpg

Sports-Writer-Help-Wanted-e1438284565735.jpg

718 ms

2015-Discover-e1437575324135.jpg

2015-Discover-e1437575324135.jpg

712 ms

TPAKeepTexasNotified.jpg

TPAKeepTexasNotified.jpg

715 ms

6790032942_1998e88633_m.jpg

6790032942_1998e88633_m.jpg

618 ms

water_level_widget.php

water_level_widget.php

436 ms

lhtblue_240x420_bg.jpg

lhtblue_240x420_bg.jpg

538 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

433 ms

bgr_footer.png

bgr_footer.png

620 ms

520 ms

bgr_slider_current.png

bgr_slider_current.png

204 ms

bgr_sldier_div.png

bgr_sldier_div.png

205 ms

foundation-widget.css

foundation-widget.css

130 ms

styles-v3.css

styles-v3.css

111 ms

collect

collect

126 ms

683499df8f56110484c844bad07376ca

683499df8f56110484c844bad07376ca

34 ms

Accessibility Review

themonitor.net accessibility score

77

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

Best Practices

themonitor.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

themonitor.net SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Themonitor.net 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 Themonitor.net 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

themonitor.net

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