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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

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Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geeknews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geeknews.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sourceforge.net

216 ms

cmp4.js

125 ms

lato.css

135 ms

sandiego.css

159 ms

sf.sandiego-head.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Geeknews.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Sourceforge.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Ads.pro-market.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.slashdotmedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

320.5 kB

After Optimization

243.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geeknews.com main page is 320.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 110.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 55.5 kB
  • After minification 55.4 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 40.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB

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. Geeknews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 94.2 kB
  • After compression 62.2 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 32.0 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 64 B

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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. Geeknews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (32%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geeknews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sourceforge.net

sourceforge.net

216 ms

cmp4.js

cmp4.js

125 ms

lato.css

lato.css

135 ms

sandiego.css

sandiego.css

159 ms

sf.sandiego-head.js

sf.sandiego-head.js

152 ms

adframetop.js

adframetop.js

151 ms

sf.sandiego-base.js

sf.sandiego-base.js

145 ms

sf.sandiego-foundation-base.js

sf.sandiego-foundation-base.js

140 ms

site-143572.js

site-143572.js

112 ms

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

v652eace1692a40cfa3763df669d7439c1639079717194

128 ms

sf.js

sf.js

472 ms

sf-logo-full.svg

sf-logo-full.svg

153 ms

github-sync.png

github-sync.png

148 ms

bg-home-opt-fs8.png

bg-home-opt-fs8.png

164 ms

icon

icon

148 ms

icon

icon

146 ms

icon

icon

148 ms

icon

icon

181 ms

icon

icon

186 ms

icon

icon

183 ms

icon

icon

183 ms

icon

icon

181 ms

icon

icon

186 ms

icon

icon

186 ms

SF_Homepage_V_Shape.svg

SF_Homepage_V_Shape.svg

188 ms

bg-home-2.jpg

bg-home-2.jpg

178 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

221 ms

tag.aspx

tag.aspx

207 ms

s1.js

s1.js

215 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

211 ms

18 ms

Accessibility Review

geeknews.com accessibility score

81

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

geeknews.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

geeknews.com 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

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 Geeknews.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 Geeknews.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

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