Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

timesdispatch.com

Richmond Times-Dispatch | Breaking News | Read Richmond, VA and Virginia breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on sports, weather, en...

Page Load Speed

96.6 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

70.2 sec

Page Rendered

26.4 sec

timesdispatch.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Times Dispatch content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about timesdispatch.com

Read breaking news for the city of Richmond, Henrico County, and the Metropolitan Area of Virginia. The latest weather, crime, politics, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timesdispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 96.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

timesdispatch.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value91,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.207

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value127.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richmond.com

33 ms

www.richmond.com

996 ms

bootstrap.min.2be7ddf414805ae1a81e8d6a3f9bbd90.css

1601 ms

font-awesome.min.aa9489b4ca0b873d5d02e199b14b98e9.css

1522 ms

layout.443d2c8aae2a84e869d0dbe339caf4d3.css

2040 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Timesdispatch.com, 8% (9 requests) were made to Content.newsinc.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Richmond.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.8 sec) relates to the external source Content.newsinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.1 MB (55%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Timesdispatch.com main page is 9.3 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. 80% 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 426.5 kB

  • Original 483.4 kB
  • After minification 374.7 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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 108.8 kB, which is 22% 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 426.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Times Dispatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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 3.2 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 306.4 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. Timesdispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (56%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

timesdispatch.com accessibility score

81

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

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

timesdispatch.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

SEO Factors

timesdispatch.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 Timesdispatch.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 Timesdispatch.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

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