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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

www2.cbsnews.com

CBS News - Breaking news, 24/7 live streaming news & top stories

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

713 ms

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Www2.cbsnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

www2.cbsnews.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www2.cbsnews.com

17 ms

www.cbsnews.com

30 ms

door.min.css

7 ms

widget.js

228 ms

main.js

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Www2.cbsnews.com, 35% (39 requests) were made to Assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com and 30% (33 requests) were made to Assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (228 ms) relates to the external source Disco.headliner.link.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Www2.cbsnews.com main page is 7.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 350.8 kB

  • Original 437.2 kB
  • After minification 378.7 kB
  • After compression 86.4 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 58.5 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 350.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 276.4 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Www 2 CBS News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 73.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 81.6 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 78.9 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. Www2.cbsnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

103

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Www 2 CBS News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

www2.cbsnews.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

www2.cbsnews.com best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

www2.cbsnews.com SEO score

84

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

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

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 Www2.cbsnews.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 Www2.cbsnews.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 Www 2 CBS News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: