Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

colbertnation.com

The Colbert Report - TV Series | Comedy Central US

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

337 ms

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About Website

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As America's most fearless purveyor of "truthiness," Stephen Colbert shines a light on ego-driven punditry, moral hypocrisy and government incompetence, raising the bar for political satire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colbertnation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

colbertnation.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

colbertnation.com

216 ms

the-colbert-report

14 ms

base.css

19 ms

base.js

79 ms

projectX.html

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Colbertnation.com, 30% (28 requests) were made to Cc.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (754 ms) relates to the external source 1.images.comedycentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (63%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

682.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Colbertnation.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 98.6 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.2 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 83.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 216.3 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. Colbert Nation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 450.2 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 1.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (63%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colbert Nation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

colbertnation.com accessibility score

91

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

colbertnation.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

colbertnation.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Colbertnation.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 Colbertnation.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 data is detected on the main page of Colbert Nation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: