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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

westislandnews.com

West Island News | The Latest News, Community, Events, Politics & Highlights

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westislandnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westislandnews.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.westislandtoday.com

103 ms

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36 ms

minified.js

43 ms

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40 ms

polyfill.min.js

279 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Westislandnews.com, 31% (19 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 20% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (898 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

776.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Westislandnews.com main page is 1.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 219.6 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 1.0 MB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 392.5 kB
  • After minification 338.5 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. Obviously, West Island News needs image optimization as it can save up to 53.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 277.3 kB
  • After minification 277.3 kB
  • After compression 217.9 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 59.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (26%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Island 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.westislandtoday.com

www.westislandtoday.com

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Accessibility Review

westislandnews.com accessibility score

86

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

westislandnews.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

westislandnews.com SEO score

99

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 Westislandnews.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 Westislandnews.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

westislandnews.com

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