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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

headlines.com

National, World & Politics News | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

headlines.com screenshot

About Website

Visit headlines.com now to see the best up-to-date Headlines content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about headlines.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Headlines.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

headlines.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.421

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

headlines.com

98 ms

www.headlines.com

88 ms

www.mcclatchydc.com

27 ms

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13 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 238 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Headlines.com, 15% (35 requests) were made to Mcclatchydc.com and 11% (27 requests) were made to Media.mcclatchydc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (856 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (52%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Headlines.com main page is 6.2 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. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 534.4 kB

  • Original 841.6 kB
  • After minification 833.9 kB
  • After compression 307.3 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 534.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 565.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Headlines needs image optimization as it can save up to 565.3 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 1.9 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 224.9 kB

  • Original 269.8 kB
  • After minification 268.0 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Headlines.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (64%)

Requests Now

201

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 201 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Headlines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

headlines.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

headlines.com SEO score

86

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

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 Headlines.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 Headlines.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

headlines.com

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