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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

tricities.com

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

646 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tricities.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tricities.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.heraldcourier.com

45 ms

heraldcourier.com

68 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

103 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

117 ms

lee.ds.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Tricities.com, 22% (17 requests) were made to Heraldcourier.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.0 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

616.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tricities.com main page is 1.2 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 535.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 484.0 kB

  • Original 535.1 kB
  • After minification 435.7 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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 99.4 kB, which is 19% 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 484.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 16.2 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. Tricities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 522.6 kB
  • After minification 522.5 kB
  • After compression 485.3 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. Tricities.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (74%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tricities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.heraldcourier.com

www.heraldcourier.com

45 ms

heraldcourier.com

heraldcourier.com

68 ms

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bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

103 ms

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layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

117 ms

lee.ds.css

lee.ds.css

110 ms

flex-notification-controls.e115619c5ab5d4eb38fbd29cc0d2ea9b.css

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110 ms

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owl.carousel.d631cca58a0d014854c4a6c1815f1da3.css

105 ms

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osano.js

83 ms

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access.d7adebba498598b0ec2c.js

32 ms

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102 ms

user.js

user.js

77 ms

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137 ms

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142 ms

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tnt.ee95c0b6f1daceb31bf5ef84353968c6.js

142 ms

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142 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

1034 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

87 ms

tnt.navigation.accessibility.7a9170240d21440159b9bd59db72933b.js

tnt.navigation.accessibility.7a9170240d21440159b9bd59db72933b.js

140 ms

heraldcourier.com.v2.js

heraldcourier.com.v2.js

90 ms

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141 ms

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144 ms

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142 ms

firebase-app.js

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79 ms

firebase-messaging.js

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84 ms

messaging.js

messaging.js

73 ms

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141 ms

tracking.js

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77 ms

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141 ms

lee.common.js

lee.common.js

141 ms

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144 ms

tracker.js

tracker.js

84 ms

op.js

op.js

74 ms

heraldcourier.com.js

heraldcourier.com.js

133 ms

dfp.lazy.ozone.js

dfp.lazy.ozone.js

133 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

17 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

21 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

publisher:getClientId

publisher:getClientId

63 ms

collect

collect

43 ms

collect

collect

56 ms

destination

destination

29 ms

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127 ms

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123 ms

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124 ms

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126 ms

tracker.gif

tracker.gif

118 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

137 ms

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205 ms

settings

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24 ms

168 ms

iframe

iframe

162 ms

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110 ms

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linkid.js

69 ms

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115 ms

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114 ms

collect

collect

152 ms

collect

collect

154 ms

pixel

pixel

71 ms

ml.gz.js

ml.gz.js

11 ms

11 ms

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31 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

47 ms

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22 ms

google

google

15 ms

rubicon

rubicon

3 ms

appnexus

appnexus

3 ms

Accessibility Review

tricities.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

SEO Factors

tricities.com SEO score

91

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

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 Tricities.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 Tricities.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

tricities.com

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