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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

apnews.com

Associated Press News: Breaking News, Latest Headlines and Videos | AP News

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

5.2 sec

apnews.com screenshot

About Website

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

Read the latest headlines, breaking news, and videos at APNews.com, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apnews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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125 ms

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115 ms

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160 ms

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270 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Apnews.com, 69% (96 requests) were made to Dims.apnews.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Apcdp.apnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Dims.apnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (18%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apnews.com main page is 6.9 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 825.6 kB

  • Original 929.0 kB
  • After minification 805.3 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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 123.7 kB, which is 13% 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 825.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. AP News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 422.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 761.9 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 422.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 556 B

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 69.2 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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. Apnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (20%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

107

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AP News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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115 ms

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137 ms

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270 ms

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Accessibility Review

apnews.com accessibility score

89

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

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

apnews.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

apnews.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apnews.com 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 Apnews.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of AP News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: