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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com

Illinois Reporter | Stories from intrepid reporters attending the Illinois Press Foundation Journalism Workshop at Eastern Illinois University

Page Load Speed

994 ms in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

847 ms

Page Rendered

138 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinoisreporter.wordpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 985 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

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,280 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com

9 ms

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com

304 ms

90 ms

style.css

98 ms

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Illinoisreporter.wordpress.com, 28% (11 requests) were made to Illinoisreporter.files.wordpress.com and 18% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (393 ms) relates to the external source Illinoisreporter.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

518.5 kB

After Optimization

410.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Illinoisreporter.wordpress.com main page is 518.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 217.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 78.0 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 78.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 217.7 kB
  • After minification 217.7 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. Illinois Reporter Word Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 178.2 kB
  • After minification 178.2 kB
  • After compression 148.4 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 29.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 270 B

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. Illinoisreporter.wordpress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois Reporter Word Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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9 ms

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304 ms

90 ms

style.css

style.css

98 ms

90 ms

102 ms

107 ms

91 ms

global.css

global.css

106 ms

109 ms

hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

95 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

105 ms

98 ms

smart.js

smart.js

145 ms

104 ms

w.js

w.js

103 ms

conf

conf

120 ms

ga.js

ga.js

151 ms

cropped-eiu.jpeg

cropped-eiu.jpeg

223 ms

wpcom-gray-white.png

wpcom-gray-white.png

25 ms

cooper_camp03.jpg

cooper_camp03.jpg

313 ms

fay-2.jpg

fay-2.jpg

227 ms

matthew-2.jpg

matthew-2.jpg

243 ms

natalie-2.jpg

natalie-2.jpg

309 ms

luke-2.jpg

luke-2.jpg

268 ms

karidja-2.jpg

karidja-2.jpg

274 ms

julissa-2.jpg

julissa-2.jpg

334 ms

genevieve-1.jpg

genevieve-1.jpg

346 ms

emily-1.jpg

emily-1.jpg

393 ms

eli-jpeg.jpg

eli-jpeg.jpg

383 ms

global-print.css

global-print.css

15 ms

g.gif

g.gif

140 ms

143 ms

g.gif

g.gif

138 ms

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g.gif

138 ms

ata.js

ata.js

63 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

10 ms

Accessibility Review

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com accessibility score

87

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

illinoisreporter.wordpress.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

illinoisreporter.wordpress.com SEO score

88

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 Illinoisreporter.wordpress.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 Illinoisreporter.wordpress.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

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