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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mobile.propublica.org

ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

491 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mobile.propublica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mobile.propublica.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,760 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mobile.propublica.org

45 ms

www.propublica.org

138 ms

main.51828988.css

88 ms

201904-banner.png

77 ms

20240227-mental-health-callout-square_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mobile.propublica.org, 47% (7 requests) were made to Assets.propublica.org and 13% (2 requests) were made to Propublica.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) relates to the external source Assets-c3.propublica.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

385.3 kB

After Optimization

257.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mobile.propublica.org main page is 385.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 162.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 128.2 kB

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 148.2 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 128.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 152.1 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. Mobile Pro Publica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 70.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (31%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mobile Pro Publica. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mobile.propublica.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mobile.propublica.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mobile.propublica.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mobile.propublica.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 Mobile.propublica.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 Mobile Pro Publica. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: