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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

foodnews.org

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

741 ms

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About Website

Visit foodnews.org now to see the best up-to-date Foodnews content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about foodnews.org

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foodnews.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

foodnews.org performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.753

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foodnews.org

15 ms

64 ms

bLMY4IbeO5Zdzi60Vrh0H1RYRxE.js

27 ms

bootstrap.min.css

61 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Foodnews.org, 32% (19 requests) were made to Static.ewg.org and 13% (8 requests) were made to Ewg.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (914 ms) relates to the external source Static.ewg.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Foodnews.org main page is 2.1 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. 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 21.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Foodnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 217.1 kB
  • After minification 217.1 kB
  • After compression 184.7 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 32.3 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. Foodnews.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (58%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Foodnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

foodnews.org

foodnews.org

15 ms

64 ms

bLMY4IbeO5Zdzi60Vrh0H1RYRxE.js

bLMY4IbeO5Zdzi60Vrh0H1RYRxE.js

27 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

61 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

75 ms

wyp4ngq.css

wyp4ngq.css

84 ms

main.css

main.css

75 ms

at.js

at.js

82 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

54 ms

app.js

app.js

73 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

54 ms

glightbox.min.js

glightbox.min.js

69 ms

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83 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

195 ms

AKWZXHJB

AKWZXHJB

197 ms

hamburger-white.png

hamburger-white.png

196 ms

close_x.svg

close_x.svg

291 ms

ewg-e-logo-white.png

ewg-e-logo-white.png

515 ms

foodnews-dropdown-dd.jpg

foodnews-dropdown-dd.jpg

484 ms

foodnews-dropdown-cf.jpg

foodnews-dropdown-cf.jpg

360 ms

background-leaf-L.png

background-leaf-L.png

485 ms

background-leaf-R.png

background-leaf-R.png

485 ms

p.css

p.css

36 ms

subsidies.jpg

subsidies.jpg

96 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

224 ms

dc.js

dc.js

252 ms

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ewg-foodnews-avoid-psticide-1.jpg

555 ms

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dd.jpg

382 ms

cf.jpg

cf.jpg

594 ms

ewg-foodnews-article-cover.jpg

ewg-foodnews-article-cover.jpg

595 ms

ewg-foodnews-footer-banner-img.jpg

ewg-foodnews-footer-banner-img.jpg

596 ms

ewg-foodnews-footer-banner-icons.png

ewg-foodnews-footer-banner-icons.png

593 ms

HL-App-PopUp_C02.jpg

HL-App-PopUp_C02.jpg

593 ms

foodnews-footer-app.png

foodnews-footer-app.png

596 ms

facebook-forest-green.png

facebook-forest-green.png

634 ms

twitter-forest-green.png

twitter-forest-green.png

914 ms

instagram-forest-green.png

instagram-forest-green.png

645 ms

youtube-forest-green.png

youtube-forest-green.png

634 ms

EWG_Capitol_GMO_Responsive.jpg

EWG_Capitol_GMO_Responsive.jpg

160 ms

ConservationDBBlog.jpg

ConservationDBBlog.jpg

160 ms

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155 ms

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202 ms

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201 ms

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120 ms

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273 ms

analytics.js

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236 ms

destination

destination

263 ms

bat.js

bat.js

435 ms

destination

destination

263 ms

at.js

at.js

435 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

430 ms

pixel.js

pixel.js

432 ms

main.js

main.js

64 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

151 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

348 ms

collect

collect

222 ms

collect

collect

221 ms

collect

collect

177 ms

Accessibility Review

foodnews.org accessibility score

85

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

foodnews.org best practices score

75

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

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

foodnews.org SEO score

92

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

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 Foodnews.org 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 Foodnews.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

foodnews.org

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