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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

U.S. Politics - The New York Times

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.299

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

33 ms

28 ms

styles.css

127 ms

interactive.css

81 ms

first-draft.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com, 32% (20 requests) were made to A1.nyt.com and 21% (13 requests) were made to Typeface.nyt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (783 ms) relates to the external source Typeface.nyt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (69%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

798.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 84.1 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 63.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 185.4 kB
  • After minification 182.2 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. Thecaucus Blogs Ny Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 400.9 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 1.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 683.4 kB

  • Original 878.2 kB
  • After minification 876.1 kB
  • After compression 194.8 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. Thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 683.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (60%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecaucus Blogs 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 25 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

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com accessibility score

94

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.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

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com SEO score

97

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

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 Thecaucus.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 Thecaucus.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

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thecaucus Blogs 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: