Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

iht.com

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Page Load Speed

198.6 sec in total

First Response

454 ms

Resources Loaded

166.3 sec

Page Rendered

31.9 sec

iht.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iht.com page load time and found that the first response time was 454 ms and then it took 198.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 23 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

iht.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value71,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value85.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iht.com

454 ms

www.nytimes.com

516 ms

zam5nzz.css

742 ms

styles.css

2358 ms

home_prod.js

3754 ms

Our browser made a total of 315 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Iht.com, 33% (103 requests) were made to Static01.nyt.com and 6% (20 requests) were made to A1.nyt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (21.4 sec) relates to the external source Cigsvc.nytimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (61%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Iht.com main page is 4.7 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 358.9 kB

  • Original 433.3 kB
  • After minification 380.8 kB
  • After compression 74.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 52.4 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 358.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 834.3 kB
  • After minification 805.7 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. Iht images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB
  • After compression 860.8 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 1.9 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 588.7 kB

  • Original 699.9 kB
  • After minification 698.8 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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. Iht.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 588.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 136 (51%)

Requests Now

265

After Optimization

129

The browser has sent 265 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iht. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 83 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iht.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

iht.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

iht.com SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iht.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 Iht.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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