Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

askanewyorker.com

Ask a New Yorker - A Cultural Influence

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

askanewyorker.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Askanewyorker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

askanewyorker.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.askanewyorker.com

1865 ms

adsbygoogle.js

29 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

245 ms

styles.css

185 ms

bootstrap.css

295 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Askanewyorker.com, 9% (18 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Askanewyorker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (26%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Askanewyorker.com main page is 3.9 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. 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 496.7 kB

  • Original 553.6 kB
  • After minification 542.1 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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 496.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 76.4 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Ask A New Yorker images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 273.8 kB

  • Original 424.0 kB
  • After minification 418.1 kB
  • After compression 150.2 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 273.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 171.4 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 185.9 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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. Askanewyorker.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 171.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 114 (56%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

90

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ask A New Yorker. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 69 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

askanewyorker.com accessibility score

78

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

askanewyorker.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

askanewyorker.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Askanewyorker.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Askanewyorker.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 Ask A New Yorker. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: