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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

westernmassnews.com

Western Mass News: Springfield News, Weather, and Sports

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit westernmassnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Western Mass News content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about westernmassnews.com

Western Mass News is digging deeper and getting answers for you on the latest headlines and breaking news from Springfield and across the Pioneer Valley. Keywords: Springfield, Holyoke, Pioneer Valley...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernmassnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernmassnews.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westernmassnews.com

18 ms

www.westernmassnews.com

272 ms

polyfill.js

98 ms

react.js

55 ms

default.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Westernmassnews.com, 51% (42 requests) were made to Gray-wggb-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Westernmassnews.com main page is 4.4 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 747.5 kB

  • Original 882.9 kB
  • After minification 882.2 kB
  • After compression 135.4 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 747.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Western Mass News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 413.5 kB

  • Original 860.4 kB
  • After minification 860.4 kB
  • After compression 447.0 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 413.5 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (45%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Mass News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

westernmassnews.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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

westernmassnews.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

westernmassnews.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Westernmassnews.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 Westernmassnews.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 Western Mass News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: