Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

glenngreenwald.net

No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

Page Load Speed

20.8 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

20.1 sec

Page Rendered

427 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glenngreenwald.net page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

glenngreenwald.net performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.312

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glenngreenwald.net

275 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

187 ms

scripts.js

122 ms

buttons.js

7 ms

loader.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Glenngreenwald.net, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Player.theplatform.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.9 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Glenngreenwald.net main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 714.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 136.8 kB

  • Original 198.2 kB
  • After minification 198.0 kB
  • After compression 61.4 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 136.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 714.1 kB
  • After minification 705.3 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. Glenn Greenwald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 312.4 kB

  • Original 686.9 kB
  • After minification 686.9 kB
  • After compression 374.5 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 312.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 956 B

  • Original 6.9 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Glenngreenwald.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 956 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (36%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glenn Greenwald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glenngreenwald.net accessibility score

63

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

glenngreenwald.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

glenngreenwald.net SEO score

75

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

High

Document uses plugins

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Glenngreenwald.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Glenngreenwald.net 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 data is detected on the main page of Glenn Greenwald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: