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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

link.nbcnews.com

NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News | NBC News

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

796 ms

Page Rendered

3.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Link.nbcnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

link.nbcnews.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Link.nbcnews.com, 44% (51 requests) were made to Nodeassets.nbcnews.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (506 ms) relates to the external source Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 MB (49%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Link.nbcnews.com main page is 8.4 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 792.1 kB

  • Original 937.1 kB
  • After minification 937.1 kB
  • After compression 145.1 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 792.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 154.0 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Link NBC News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.1 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 2.1 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 197.2 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. Link.nbcnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (43%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

65

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Link 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

link.nbcnews.com accessibility score

82

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

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

link.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

link.nbcnews.com SEO score

84

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

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Link.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 Link.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

link.nbcnews.com

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