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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

militarytimes.com

Military Times - Independent News About Your Military | Military Times

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

About Website

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

Military Times is your trusted, independent voice for news about service members at home and deployed around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Militarytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

militarytimes.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,360 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

militarytimes.com

8 ms

www.militarytimes.com

177 ms

default.css

27 ms

default.css

28 ms

military-styles.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Militarytimes.com, 17% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Polyfill.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (926 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Militarytimes.com main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 489.8 kB

  • Original 569.5 kB
  • After minification 568.8 kB
  • After compression 79.8 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 489.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Military Times images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Military Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

militarytimes.com accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

militarytimes.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

militarytimes.com SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Militarytimes.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 Militarytimes.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 data is detected on the main page of Military Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: