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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

thewhig.com

Home | The Kingston Whig Standard

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewhig.com page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 9.7 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

thewhig.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewhig.com

128 ms

www.thewhig.com

230 ms

all_en.css

79 ms

all_en.js

163 ms

gpt.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 171 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Thewhig.com, 16% (27 requests) were made to Storage.thewhig.com and 11% (18 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (529 ms) relates to the external source Cache-thumb1.pressdisplay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewhig.com main page is 2.3 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. 85% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 285.9 kB

  • Original 379.9 kB
  • After minification 367.7 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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 285.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 898.0 kB
  • After minification 856.6 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 Whig images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 686.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 353.6 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 686.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Thewhig.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (37%)

Requests Now

163

After Optimization

103

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 163 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Whig. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thewhig.com accessibility score

93

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

thewhig.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

thewhig.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thewhig.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 Thewhig.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

thewhig.com

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