Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

whidbeynewstimes.com

Whidbey Island news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, restaurants, events, opinion, classifieds and obituaries | Whidbey News-Times

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

630 ms

whidbeynewstimes.com screenshot

About Website

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The best source for news and information from Oak Harbor, WA and Whidbey Island for more than 125 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whidbeynewstimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whidbeynewstimes.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.whidbeynewstimes.com

48 ms

sound.css

231 ms

uni-form.css

157 ms

blue.uni-form.css

162 ms

dropdown.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 286 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Whidbeynewstimes.com, 13% (36 requests) were made to Media.pnwlocalnews.com and 6% (18 requests) were made to Bh.contextweb.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.goroost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (25%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Whidbeynewstimes.com main page is 4.1 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 169.1 kB

  • Original 207.4 kB
  • After minification 192.4 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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 169.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 82.7 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. Whidbey News Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 732.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 458.7 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 732.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 73.6 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Whidbeynewstimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 157 (60%)

Requests Now

261

After Optimization

104

The browser has sent 261 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whidbey News Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whidbeynewstimes.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

whidbeynewstimes.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whidbeynewstimes.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whidbeynewstimes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Whidbeynewstimes.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 description is not detected on the main page of Whidbey News Times. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: