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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

observer.nyc

News, data and insight about the powerful forces that shape the world. | Observer

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Observer.nyc page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 3.5 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

observer.nyc performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

observer.nyc

2068 ms

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154 ms

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Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Observer.nyc, 60% (26 requests) were made to and 23% (10 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Observer.nyc.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

987.7 kB

After Optimization

901.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Observer.nyc main page is 987.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 896.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 76.4 kB

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 76.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 896.2 kB
  • After minification 886.7 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. Observer images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (20%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Observer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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154 ms

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Accessibility Review

observer.nyc accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

observer.nyc 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

observer.nyc SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Observer.nyc 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 Observer.nyc 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

observer.nyc

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Observer. 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: