Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thehardtimes.net

The Hard Times - Punk News Comin' Your Way!!!

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

943 ms

Page Rendered

295 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehardtimes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehardtimes.net performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.576

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehardtimes.net

144 ms

beacon.js

34 ms

controltag

34 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

20 ms

ht-ad-style.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Thehardtimes.net, 6% (4 requests) were made to I1.wp.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (281 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (65%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

544.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Thehardtimes.net main page is 1.6 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. 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 53.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 219.9 kB
  • After minification 219.9 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. The Hard Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 802.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 833.7 kB
  • After compression 272.0 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 802.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 173.3 kB

  • Original 211.0 kB
  • After minification 186.2 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Thehardtimes.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (71%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hard 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 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehardtimes.net accessibility score

86

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thehardtimes.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thehardtimes.net 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 Thehardtimes.net 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 Thehardtimes.net 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 The Hard Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: