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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

news.iheart.com

Breaking Music News, Celeb and Entertainment News and Gossip | iHeart

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

406 ms

Page Rendered

715 ms

news.iheart.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to news.iheart.com homepage info - get ready to check News IHeart best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about news.iheart.com

Get the latest music news - rock, pop, hip-hop, rock, alternative, and country music news from iHeart. Get the latest music and trending news, from your favorite artists and bands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.iheart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.iheart.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news

24 ms

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215 ms

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32 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original News.iheart.com, 83% (85 requests) were made to Iheart.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to I.iheart.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (215 ms) relates to the external source I.iheart.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (10%)

Content Size

11.1 MB

After Optimization

10.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of News.iheart.com main page is 11.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 163.1 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 213.8 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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 163.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 734.7 kB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 8.9 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. News IHeart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 231.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.0 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 231.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (83%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News IHeart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 84 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

news.iheart.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

news.iheart.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

news.iheart.com SEO score

84

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

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 News.iheart.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 News.iheart.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

news.iheart.com

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