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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

thenewsargus.com

Winston-Salem State University (thenewsargus) News and Classifieds

Page Load Speed

937 ms in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

691 ms

Page Rendered

184 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenewsargus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 875 ms 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

thenewsargus.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thenewsargus.com

62 ms

www.thenewsargus.com

91 ms

styles-v14230000000052.css

26 ms

wp-v14230000000052.css

40 ms

button_css-v14230000000052.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Thenewsargus.com, 46% (32 requests) were made to D2fss5beqk4xh8.cloudfront.net and 12% (8 requests) were made to D3vsdfvkxh87qp.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (191 ms) relates to the external source Vt-vtwa-assets.varsitytutors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 439.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thenewsargus.com main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 87.6 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.3 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 87.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 330.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Obviously, The News Argus needs image optimization as it can save up to 330.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 373.6 kB
  • After minification 373.6 kB
  • After compression 361.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Thenewsargus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (53%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The News Argus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thenewsargus.com

thenewsargus.com

62 ms

www.thenewsargus.com

www.thenewsargus.com

91 ms

styles-v14230000000052.css

styles-v14230000000052.css

26 ms

wp-v14230000000052.css

wp-v14230000000052.css

40 ms

button_css-v14230000000052.css

button_css-v14230000000052.css

18 ms

partner_css.php

partner_css.php

42 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min-v14230000000052.js

jquery-1.10.1.min-v14230000000052.js

38 ms

preload_img-v14230000000052.js

preload_img-v14230000000052.js

39 ms

script-v14230000000052.js

script-v14230000000052.js

40 ms

tabs-v14230000000052.js

tabs-v14230000000052.js

62 ms

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slider-v14230000000052.js

62 ms

poll-v14230000000052.js

poll-v14230000000052.js

62 ms

popup-v14230000000052.js

popup-v14230000000052.js

62 ms

campus.common-v14230000000052.js

campus.common-v14230000000052.js

61 ms

jquery.liMarquee-v14230000000052.js

jquery.liMarquee-v14230000000052.js

61 ms

groupinputs-v14230000000052.js

groupinputs-v14230000000052.js

68 ms

init.js

init.js

68 ms

api.js

api.js

84 ms

adGearSegmentation_cmn.js

adGearSegmentation_cmn.js

67 ms

init.js

init.js

35 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

142 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

84 ms

u.png

u.png

23 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

100 ms

display_vt_optimized.jpg

display_vt_optimized.jpg

191 ms

jstag

jstag

66 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

96 ms

image.jpg

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115 ms

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182 ms

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186 ms

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94 ms

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114 ms

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113 ms

f_conect_button.png

f_conect_button.png

64 ms

search_submit.png

search_submit.png

63 ms

soc_header_ico.png

soc_header_ico.png

64 ms

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64 ms

slider_arrows.png

slider_arrows.png

64 ms

main_page_slider_desc_bg.png

main_page_slider_desc_bg.png

63 ms

classified_icons.png

classified_icons.png

94 ms

CMN_Homepage_Banner.jpg

CMN_Homepage_Banner.jpg

94 ms

small-loading-white.gif

small-loading-white.gif

93 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

94 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

93 ms

display_vt_optimized.jpg

display_vt_optimized.jpg

187 ms

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display_vt_optimized.jpg

188 ms

tab_menu_active.png

tab_menu_active.png

92 ms

all.js

all.js

178 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

64 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

124 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

123 ms

foter_soc_logo_r.png

foter_soc_logo_r.png

118 ms

dot_list.png

dot_list.png

93 ms

soc_ico.png

soc_ico.png

94 ms

receive_email_input_bg.png

receive_email_input_bg.png

94 ms

main_menu_drop_block_bottom.png

main_menu_drop_block_bottom.png

94 ms

main_menu_bg.png

main_menu_bg.png

93 ms

anchor

anchor

52 ms

all.js

all.js

8 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

3 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

11 ms

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35 ms

webworker.js

webworker.js

69 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

22 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

55 ms

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58 ms

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61 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

42 ms

Accessibility Review

thenewsargus.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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 IDs are not unique

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thenewsargus.com best practices score

50

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

SEO Factors

thenewsargus.com SEO score

80

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thenewsargus.com

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