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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

opennews.com

OpenNews — Connecting the journalism-tech network that collaborates on open technologies and processes within journalism | OpenNews

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

577 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opennews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.2 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

opennews.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

opennews.com

1534 ms

www.opennews.org

13 ms

www.opennews.org

100 ms

css

89 ms

normalise.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Opennews.com, 36% (13 requests) were made to Opennews.org and 17% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Opennews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

490.5 kB

After Optimization

360.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Opennews.com main page is 490.5 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 294.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 25.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 294.0 kB
  • After minification 283.0 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. Open News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 127.3 kB
  • After minification 89.3 kB
  • After compression 62.5 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 64.9 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Opennews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

opennews.com accessibility score

72

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

opennews.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

opennews.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

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 Opennews.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 Opennews.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 description is not detected on the main page of Open 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: