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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

newsoftheweird.com

News of the Weird - Oddities | UExpress

Page Load Speed

852 ms in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

443 ms

Page Rendered

235 ms

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About Website

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

The editors at Andrews McMeel Syndication continue a tradition started by pioneering weird news purveyor Chuck Shepherd, presenting the best bizarre news gathered from around the world.

Visit newsoftheweird.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Newsoftheweird.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 678 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsoftheweird.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.352

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newsoftheweird.com

174 ms

uu-cookieconsent.js

62 ms

urchin.js

94 ms

quant.js

18 ms

gpt.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Newsoftheweird.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Edge.quantserve.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (176 ms) relates to the external source Images.gocomics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 138.1 kB (65%)

Content Size

213.6 kB

After Optimization

75.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Newsoftheweird.com main page is 213.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 193.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 13.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 374 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, News Of The Weird needs image optimization as it can save up to 374 B or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 124.0 kB

  • Original 193.2 kB
  • After minification 186.5 kB
  • After compression 69.2 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 124.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Of The Weird. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newsoftheweird.com

newsoftheweird.com

174 ms

uu-cookieconsent.js

uu-cookieconsent.js

62 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

94 ms

quant.js

quant.js

18 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

30 ms

uclick_name_logoRGB.png

uclick_name_logoRGB.png

176 ms

pixel;r=1766269821;a=p-5bhew76JBcfq6;fpan=1;fpa=P0-1721905830-1455610722840;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1455610722839;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsoftheweird.com%2F;ogl=

pixel;r=1766269821;a=p-5bhew76JBcfq6;fpan=1;fpa=P0-1721905830-1455610722840;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1455610722839;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsoftheweird.com%2F;ogl=

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

162 ms

nw_main.gif

nw_main.gif

154 ms

dotsright.gif

dotsright.gif

153 ms

shim.gif

shim.gif

153 ms

submit_news.gif

submit_news.gif

153 ms

join.gif

join.gif

154 ms

home.gif

home.gif

153 ms

current_a.gif

current_a.gif

153 ms

backstage.gif

backstage.gif

154 ms

faqs.gif

faqs.gif

154 ms

SEARCH.gif

SEARCH.gif

154 ms

bio.gif

bio.gif

154 ms

books.gif

books.gif

153 ms

syndication.gif

syndication.gif

154 ms

dottedbar.gif

dottedbar.gif

154 ms

pubads_impl_79.js

pubads_impl_79.js

17 ms

container.html

container.html

29 ms

Accessibility Review

newsoftheweird.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

newsoftheweird.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

newsoftheweird.com SEO score

93

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newsoftheweird.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 Newsoftheweird.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

newsoftheweird.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News Of The Weird. 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: