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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thevirginiastar.com

The Virginia Star - Leading the Way in News and Education

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit thevirginiastar.com now to see the best up-to-date The Virginia Star content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thevirginiastar.com

The Virginia Star is a digital newspaper with the news from across the state, covering the latest on politics and policy, thoughtful opinion, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thevirginiastar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thevirginiastar.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.304

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thevirginiastar.com

72 ms

cv.css

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style.min.css

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Our browser made a total of 262 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Thevirginiastar.com, 8% (21 requests) were made to Router.infolinks.com and 6% (16 requests) were made to Simage2.pubmatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thevirginiastar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (22%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thevirginiastar.com main page is 5.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 330.3 kB

  • Original 398.1 kB
  • After minification 320.2 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 77.9 kB, which is 20% 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 330.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 769.2 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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 Virginia Star needs image optimization as it can save up to 769.2 kB or 18% 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 13.2 kB

  • Original 397.1 kB
  • After minification 396.6 kB
  • After compression 383.8 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. Thevirginiastar.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 114 (49%)

Requests Now

233

After Optimization

119

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 233 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Virginia Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thevirginiastar.com accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thevirginiastar.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thevirginiastar.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thevirginiastar.com

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