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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

uk.msn.co.uk

MSN UK: Latest news, weather, Hotmail sign in, Outlook email, Bing

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

730 ms

Page Rendered

269 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uk.msn.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 999 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uk.msn.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uk.msn.co.uk

119 ms

en-gb

146 ms

finance-css-c9-641e18ca6b389fdb6807d8b9e8237d-d17db944

264 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

99 ms

dapmsn.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Uk.msn.co.uk, 56% (14 requests) were made to Img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net and 20% (5 requests) were made to Static-hp-eus.s-msn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) relates to the external source Static-hp-eus.s-msn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

342.9 kB

After Optimization

226.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Uk.msn.co.uk main page is 342.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 185.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 36.4 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 25.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 185.1 kB
  • After minification 174.0 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. UK MSN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 80.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK MSN. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

uk.msn.co.uk accessibility score

78

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

uk.msn.co.uk best practices score

58

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

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

SEO Factors

uk.msn.co.uk 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 Uk.msn.co.uk 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 Uk.msn.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of UK MSN. 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: