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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

latinnews.com

LatinNews | Latin American Intelligence | Latin American News

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

954 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

About Website

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LatinNews - The leading source of political and economic intelligence on Latin America since 1967.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Latinnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 954 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

latinnews.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

latinnews.com

954 ms

modal.css

59 ms

k2.css

90 ms

captchaStyle.css

62 ms

tagcloud.css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Latinnews.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Assets.cookieconsent.silktide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (954 ms) belongs to the original domain Latinnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.5 kB (45%)

Content Size

790.3 kB

After Optimization

431.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Latinnews.com main page is 790.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 255.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 215.6 kB
  • After minification 189.1 kB
  • After compression 106.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.5 kB, which is 12% 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 109.2 kB or 51% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 237.5 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. Latin News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 141.4 kB

  • Original 211.6 kB
  • After minification 204.8 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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 141.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 107.6 kB
  • After minification 84.9 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Latinnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (47%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Latin 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

latinnews.com accessibility score

75

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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

latinnews.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

latinnews.com SEO score

82

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Latinnews.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 Latinnews.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Latin News. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: