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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

now.msnbc.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Now.msnbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

now.msnbc.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,390 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

now.msnbc.com

280 ms

now

192 ms

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45 ms

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44 ms

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15 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Now.msnbc.com, 34% (59 requests) were made to Msnbc.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Media1.s-nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (575 ms) relates to the external source Nvcdn.msnbc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 MB (70%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Now.msnbc.com main page is 6.4 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. Javascripts take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 433.6 kB

  • Original 551.6 kB
  • After minification 532.8 kB
  • After compression 118.0 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 433.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 336.1 kB
  • After minification 327.0 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. Now MSNBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 3.2 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 818.7 kB

  • Original 960.3 kB
  • After minification 937.2 kB
  • After compression 141.5 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. Now.msnbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 818.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (64%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Now MSNBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 83 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

now.msnbc.com accessibility score

83

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

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

now.msnbc.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

now.msnbc.com SEO score

93

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Now.msnbc.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Now.msnbc.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 Now MSNBC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: