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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

dowjones.net

Dow Jones – Business & Financial News, Analysis & Insight

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dowjones.net page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dowjones.net performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dowjones.net

59 ms

new.dowjones.com

9 ms

www.dowjones.com

693 ms

ace.min.js

180 ms

djcmp.min.1.0.55.js

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dowjones.net, 66% (41 requests) were made to Dowjones.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Images.dowjones.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (693 ms) relates to the external source Dowjones.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 669.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

809.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dowjones.net main page is 1.5 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. 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 98.1 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 77.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 289.2 kB
  • After minification 273.7 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. Dow Jones images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 570.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 472.2 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 570.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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. Dowjones.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (71%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dow Jones. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dowjones.net accessibility score

73

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

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

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

dowjones.net best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

dowjones.net SEO score

86

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

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 Dowjones.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 Dowjones.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 Dow Jones. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: