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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thelinknews.net

Home - The Link News

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

6.4 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

670 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelinknews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 6.4 sec and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelinknews.net performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelinknews.net

6372 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

16 ms

style.min.css

35 ms

classic-themes.min.css

32 ms

social-icons.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Thelinknews.net, 15% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelinknews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 937.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

10.8 MB

After Optimization

9.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelinknews.net main page is 10.8 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. Images take 10.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 170.3 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 142.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 790.0 kB

  • Original 10.2 MB
  • After minification 9.5 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. The Link News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 238.9 kB
  • After compression 237.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 119.5 kB
  • After compression 115.8 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. Thelinknews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (51%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Link 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thelinknews.net accessibility score

76

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thelinknews.net best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thelinknews.net SEO score

77

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

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

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 Thelinknews.net 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 Thelinknews.net 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 The Link 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: