Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

flipnews.org

Home - FlipNews - Free Lance International Press

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

flipnews.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flipnews.org page load time and found that the first response time was 315 ms and then it took 7.3 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

flipnews.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flipnews.org

315 ms

flipnews.org

1711 ms

simple-line-icons.css

27 ms

k2.css

135 ms

font-awesome-5.min.css

385 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (112 requests) were addressed to the original Flipnews.org, 10% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Flipnews.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (6%)

Content Size

17.7 MB

After Optimization

16.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Flipnews.org main page is 17.7 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 16.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 143.2 kB

  • Original 166.0 kB
  • After minification 156.2 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 143.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 810.2 kB

  • Original 16.9 MB
  • After minification 16.1 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. Flip News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 448.6 kB
  • After minification 448.3 kB
  • After compression 357.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 90.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 199.8 kB
  • After minification 199.5 kB
  • After compression 163.3 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. Flipnews.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.5 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (43%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flip 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

flipnews.org accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

<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

flipnews.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

flipnews.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flipnews.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Flipnews.org 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 Flip 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: