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Visit alternet.orgWe analyzed Alternet.org page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 388 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Alternet.org, 5% (19 requests) were made to Bh.contextweb.com and 3% (13 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Static3.smi2.net.
Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (28%)
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In fact, the total size of Alternet.org main page is 12.6 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. 85% 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 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
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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 179.8 kB or 87% of the original size.
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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. Alternet images are well optimized though.
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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 1.4 MB or 60% of the original size.
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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. Alternet.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 85% of the original size.
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The browser has sent 350 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alternet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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alternet.org accessibility score
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.
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[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles
Names and labels
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Links do not have a discernible name
Best practices
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[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
alternet.org best practices score
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Does not use HTTPS
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General
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Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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