Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

photos.msn.ca

MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Photos.msn.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

photos.msn.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

photos.msn.ca

228 ms

www.msn.com

146 ms

17-58d7c6-9118303c

10 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

17 ms

BB8MNzQ.img

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Photos.msn.ca, 57% (16 requests) were made to Static-global-s-msn-com.akamaized.net and 21% (6 requests) were made to Bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) relates to the external source Browser.events.data.msn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

543.8 kB

After Optimization

473.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Photos.msn.ca main page is 543.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 460.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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. 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 33.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 36.3 kB

  • Original 460.2 kB
  • After minification 423.9 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. Photos MSN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photos MSN. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

photos.msn.ca accessibility score

77

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

photos.msn.ca best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

photos.msn.ca 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Photos.msn.ca 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 Photos.msn.ca 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 Photos MSN. 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: