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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

cnn.com

Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

629 ms

Page Rendered

4.4 sec

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About Website

Visit cnn.com now to see the best up-to-date CNN content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cnn.com

View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cnn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cnn.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value61.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cnn.com

72 ms

landingprod.js

59 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

49 ms

iframeResizer.min.js

42 ms

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254 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Cnn.com, 80% (52 requests) were made to Media.cnn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) relates to the external source Healthguides.cnn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (43%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cnn.com main page is 5.9 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. 75% 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 565.7 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 2.5 MB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. CNN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CNN. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

cnn.com accessibility score

84

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cnn.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

cnn.com SEO score

85

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 Cnn.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 Cnn.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

cnn.com

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