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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

elections.nbcnews.com

2024 Presidential Election: News, Polls, Events and More | NBC News

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

905 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Visit elections.nbcnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Election S NBC News content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about elections.nbcnews.com

Browse stories on the 2024 presidential election, including updates on the latest polls, news about Democrat and Republican candidates and what to expect in November.

Visit elections.nbcnews.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Elections.nbcnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 905 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

elections.nbcnews.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Elections.nbcnews.com, 35% (28 requests) were made to Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (905 ms) relates to the external source Nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 MB (66%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elections.nbcnews.com main page is 6.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 188.7 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 1.2 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 620.6 kB
  • After minification 614.3 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. Election S NBC News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 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 2.0 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 978.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 197.1 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. Elections.nbcnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 978.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (62%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Election S NBC News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

elections.nbcnews.com accessibility score

75

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

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.

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

Best Practices

elections.nbcnews.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

elections.nbcnews.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 Elections.nbcnews.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 Elections.nbcnews.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

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