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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

dateline.msnbc.com

Dateline: In-Depth Investigations of News Stories with Lester Holt - NBC News | NBC News

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

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About Website

Visit dateline.msnbc.com now to see the best up-to-date Dateline Ms NBC content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dateline.msnbc.com

Follow Lester Holt as he uncovers and investigates the latest news events on NBCNews.com. Find converage on murder convictions, missing people, and more

Visit dateline.msnbc.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Dateline.msnbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dateline.msnbc.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dateline.msnbc.com, 60% (87 requests) were made to Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com and 37% (53 requests) were made to Nodeassets.nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (618 ms) relates to the external source Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (47%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dateline.msnbc.com main page is 6.9 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 664.5 kB

  • Original 770.5 kB
  • After minification 770.5 kB
  • After compression 106.0 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 664.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Dateline Ms NBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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 2.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 309.2 kB

  • Original 500.0 kB
  • After minification 499.4 kB
  • After compression 190.8 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. Dateline.msnbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 309.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (37%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

89

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dateline Ms NBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

dateline.msnbc.com accessibility score

84

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

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

dateline.msnbc.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

dateline.msnbc.com SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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Social Sharing Optimization

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