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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

secure.usnews.com

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

992 ms

Page Rendered

644 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Secure.usnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

secure.usnews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value42,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.usnews.com

109 ms

css2

36 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

31 ms

utag.js

33 ms

runtime.9a1522442b46460c8053.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Secure.usnews.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) relates to the external source Cse.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 609.9 kB (72%)

Content Size

847.1 kB

After Optimization

237.3 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Secure.usnews.com main page is 847.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 564.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 468.9 kB

  • Original 564.8 kB
  • After minification 563.7 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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 468.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 141.0 kB

  • Original 282.3 kB
  • After minification 281.6 kB
  • After compression 141.3 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 141.0 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (23%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

75

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Secure U S 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 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

secure.usnews.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

secure.usnews.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

secure.usnews.com SEO score

86

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

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 Secure.usnews.com 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 Secure.usnews.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 data is detected on the main page of Secure U S News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: