Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

nationalgeographic.it

National Geographic

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

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About Website

Visit nationalgeographic.it now to see the best up-to-date National Geographic content for Italy and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nationalgeographic.it

National Geographic Italia è la rivista on line per esplorare il mondo e prendersi cura della terra. E' la versione italiana del sito della National Geographic Society americana. Sul sito trovate noti...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalgeographic.it page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 3.7 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

nationalgeographic.it performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalgeographic.it

240 ms

www.nationalgeographic.it

351 ms

jcarousel.css

221 ms

js_enabled.css

232 ms

reset.css

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalgeographic.it, 5% (5 requests) were made to Oasjs.kataweb.it and 4% (4 requests) were made to Natgeotv.nationalgeographic.it. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (910 ms) belongs to the original domain Nationalgeographic.it.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 507.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

856.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationalgeographic.it main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 765.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 90.1 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 43.5 kB, which is 41% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 90.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 765.0 kB
  • After minification 696.9 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. National Geographic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 238.1 kB

  • Original 361.7 kB
  • After minification 344.5 kB
  • After compression 123.6 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 238.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 111.0 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. Nationalgeographic.it needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (31%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

71

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Geographic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalgeographic.it accessibility score

96

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Best Practices

nationalgeographic.it best practices score

77

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationalgeographic.it SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nationalgeographic.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Nationalgeographic.it 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 National Geographic. 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: