Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

nationalnews.com

National News - The Leading Distributor of Newspapers and Magazines

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

110 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.2 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

nationalnews.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalnews.com

1083 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

font-awesome.min.css

136 ms

sfsi-style.css

224 ms

wp125.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalnews.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationalnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

349.4 kB

After Optimization

215.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Nationalnews.com main page is 349.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 120.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 51.2 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 41.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 17.5 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. Obviously, National News needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.7 kB or 82% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 79.1 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 120.2 kB
  • After minification 119.1 kB
  • After compression 110.4 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. Nationalnews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (70%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalnews.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nationalnews.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

SEO Factors

nationalnews.com SEO score

89

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 Nationalnews.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 Nationalnews.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

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