Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

8.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Military-today.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

military-today.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.364

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

military-today.com

247 ms

style.css

208 ms

urchin.js

113 ms

brand

29 ms

brand

1098 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Military-today.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Military-today.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

317.6 kB

After Optimization

285.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Military-today.com main page is 317.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 229.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 12.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 229.7 kB
  • After minification 213.1 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. Military Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 69.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 181 B

  • Original 301 B
  • After minification 237 B
  • After compression 120 B

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. Military-today.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 181 B or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (21%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Military Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

military-today.com accessibility score

54

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 do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

military-today.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

military-today.com SEO score

69

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

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 Military-today.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 Military-today.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 description is not detected on the main page of Military Today. 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: