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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

895 ms

Page Rendered

990 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com

18 ms

141 ms

nyt-capsule.js

3 ms

styles.css

26 ms

universal.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com, 24% (18 requests) were made to Static01.nyt.com and 21% (16 requests) were made to A1.nyt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) relates to the external source A1.nyt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 644.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 146.3 kB

  • Original 181.2 kB
  • After minification 155.2 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.1 kB, which is 14% 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 146.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 644.0 kB
  • After minification 639.3 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. Op Talk Blog S Ny Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 137.5 kB

  • Original 358.0 kB
  • After minification 357.8 kB
  • After compression 220.5 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 137.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 151 B

  • Original 151.4 kB
  • After minification 151.4 kB
  • After compression 151.2 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. Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (48%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Op Talk Blog S Ny Times. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.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 Op-talk.blogs.nytimes.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

op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Op Talk Blog S Ny Times. 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: