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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

economist.co.uk

The Economist | Independent journalism

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

907 ms

Page Rendered

4.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Economist.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 5.5 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

economist.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.economist.com

32 ms

www.economist.com

408 ms

2f2737c89f93e9b6.css

60 ms

30605e73dd3f3fe5.css

56 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Economist.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Cmp-cdn.p.aws.economist.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (408 ms) relates to the external source Economist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 520.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Economist.co.uk main page is 8.7 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 7.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 516.4 kB

  • Original 608.9 kB
  • After minification 608.8 kB
  • After compression 92.5 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 516.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 7.4 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Economist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 403 B

  • Original 695.3 kB
  • After minification 695.3 kB
  • After compression 694.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 192 B

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Economist.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (32%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Economist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.economist.com

www.economist.com

32 ms

www.economist.com

www.economist.com

408 ms

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60 ms

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100 ms

economist.config.js

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54 ms

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55 ms

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76 ms

Accessibility Review

economist.co.uk accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

economist.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

economist.co.uk 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 Economist.co.uk 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 Economist.co.uk 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Economist. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: