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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

feeds.npr.org

NPR - Breaking News, Analysis, Music, Arts & Podcasts : NPR

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

393 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

4.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Feeds.npr.org page load time and found that the first response time was 393 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

feeds.npr.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

feeds.npr.org

393 ms

11107397707.js

31 ms

modernizr.custom.js

43 ms

globalNavigationDropdowns-7f2dc65217d64d689305.js

53 ms

persistent-css-3f33575d90ec650f18b7.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Feeds.npr.org, 88% (105 requests) were made to Media.npr.org and 7% (8 requests) were made to S.npr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (393 ms) belongs to the original domain Feeds.npr.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (37%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Feeds.npr.org main page is 4.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 334.2 kB

  • Original 393.0 kB
  • After minification 313.3 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 79.8 kB, which is 20% 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 334.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Feeds NPR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 231.9 kB

  • Original 616.7 kB
  • After minification 616.6 kB
  • After compression 384.8 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 231.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 882.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 474.6 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. Feeds.npr.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 882.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (6%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

107

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Feeds NPR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 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

feeds.npr.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

feeds.npr.org 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

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

feeds.npr.org SEO score

85

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

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

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 Feeds.npr.org 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 Feeds.npr.org 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 Feeds NPR. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: