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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

nightlynews.com

Nightly News with Lester Holt: The Latest News Stories Every Night - NBC News | NBC News

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

790 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Nightly News content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nightlynews.com

Coverage of the latest global and U.S. breaking news stories by Lester Holt on NBCNews.com. Watch videos of breaking news, politics, health, lifestyle and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nightlynews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nightlynews.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,420 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nightlynews.com, 48% (50 requests) were made to Nodeassets.nbcnews.com and 48% (50 requests) were made to Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) relates to the external source Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (49%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nightlynews.com main page is 5.1 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 613.6 kB

  • Original 700.5 kB
  • After minification 700.3 kB
  • After compression 86.9 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 613.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Nightly News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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 1.7 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 136.9 kB

  • Original 331.8 kB
  • After minification 331.3 kB
  • After compression 194.9 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. Nightlynews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.9 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (56%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nightly 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

nightlynews.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

nightlynews.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

nightlynews.com SEO score

93

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

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 Nightlynews.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 Nightlynews.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

nightlynews.com

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