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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thewirecutter.co

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Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

720 ms

Page Rendered

5.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewirecutter.co page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 5.9 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

thewirecutter.co performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewirecutter.co

148 ms

76 ms

b4f66e54d4d87124.css

41 ms

089cf79a70b54409.css

54 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thewirecutter.co, 72% (79 requests) were made to Cdn.thewirecutter.com and 20% (22 requests) were made to Siren-production.freetls.fastly.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (304 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.thewirecutter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 731.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewirecutter.co main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 736.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 652.2 kB

  • Original 736.1 kB
  • After minification 734.5 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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 652.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 565.1 kB
  • After minification 558.2 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. The Wirecutter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 444.2 kB
  • After minification 444.2 kB
  • After compression 371.5 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 72.7 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. Thewirecutter.co has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (11%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

84

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Wirecutter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thewirecutter.co accessibility score

94

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

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

thewirecutter.co 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

SEO Factors

thewirecutter.co SEO score

99

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

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 Thewirecutter.co 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 Thewirecutter.co 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 The Wirecutter. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: