Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

monthlyreview.org

Monthly Review | An Independent Socialist Magazine

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

382 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

537 ms

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About Website

Visit monthlyreview.org now to see the best up-to-date Monthly Review content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about monthlyreview.org

Monthly Review began publication in New York City in May 1949. The first issue featured the lead article “Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein. From the beginning, Monthly Review spoke for a critical bu...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Monthlyreview.org page load time and found that the first response time was 382 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

monthlyreview.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

monthlyreview.org

382 ms

css

26 ms

22fc3650243d3e4a3905d6ede6d1bd5a.css

184 ms

a84a5eb7f3d634ed18714d7ab7f15f7c.css

197 ms

fbae4b454a515e5f4ffd0494b91b58de.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Monthlyreview.org, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) belongs to the original domain Monthlyreview.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.5 kB (46%)

Content Size

488.0 kB

After Optimization

263.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Monthlyreview.org main page is 488.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 190.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 134.2 kB

  • Original 167.2 kB
  • After minification 167.0 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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 134.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 117.9 kB
  • After minification 115.7 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. Monthly Review images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 190.4 kB
  • After compression 112.5 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 77.9 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Monthlyreview.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (70%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Monthly Review. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

monthlyreview.org accessibility score

93

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

monthlyreview.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

monthlyreview.org SEO score

90

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

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 Monthlyreview.org 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 Monthlyreview.org 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

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