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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

offthegridnews.net

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

319 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

707 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Offthegridnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 319 ms and then it took 2.7 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

offthegridnews.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

offthegridnews.net

319 ms

ga.js

36 ms

t049fba7ddabf74f215ed0dd6089f8363.js

27 ms

itrack360.appspot.com

77 ms

Top-pic.png

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Offthegridnews.net, 26% (11 requests) were made to Qs139.infusionsoft.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (435 ms) belongs to the original domain Offthegridnews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.7 kB (37%)

Content Size

819.5 kB

After Optimization

515.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Offthegridnews.net main page is 819.5 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. Images take 438.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 25.4 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 16.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 438.2 kB
  • After minification 403.4 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. Offthegridnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 251.2 kB

  • Original 352.4 kB
  • After minification 349.4 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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 251.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 625 B

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. Offthegridnews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (53%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Offthegridnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

offthegridnews.net

offthegridnews.net

319 ms

ga.js

ga.js

36 ms

t049fba7ddabf74f215ed0dd6089f8363.js

t049fba7ddabf74f215ed0dd6089f8363.js

27 ms

itrack360.appspot.com

itrack360.appspot.com

77 ms

Top-pic.png

Top-pic.png

251 ms

reports.jpg

reports.jpg

312 ms

withoutelectricity.jpg

withoutelectricity.jpg

189 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

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2c70edb68610377dd7e830c73cea6693

327 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

10 ms

empty-shelves2.jpg

empty-shelves2.jpg

186 ms

energy.jpg

energy.jpg

435 ms

2c70edb68610377dd7e830c73cea6693

2c70edb68610377dd7e830c73cea6693

320 ms

sharethis.1ac33bc7d4476110a610f925104446ff.css

sharethis.1ac33bc7d4476110a610f925104446ff.css

54 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

15 ms

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10 ms

rotating-icon.gif

rotating-icon.gif

2 ms

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5 ms

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t.dhj

22 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

10 ms

cm

cm

10 ms

5 ms

s-3271.xgi

s-3271.xgi

5 ms

6 ms

hbpix

hbpix

98 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

57 ms

g.js

g.js

4 ms

xrefid.xgi

xrefid.xgi

8 ms

pixel

pixel

21 ms

pixel

pixel

17 ms

2981

2981

21 ms

lightbox_css.jsp

lightbox_css.jsp

179 ms

anti_spam.jsp

anti_spam.jsp

185 ms

iFrameMagicServer.js

iFrameMagicServer.js

180 ms

jquery.available.js

jquery.available.js

4 ms

2c70edb68610377dd7e830c73cea6693

2c70edb68610377dd7e830c73cea6693

156 ms

lightbox_js.jsp

lightbox_js.jsp

365 ms

content.js

content.js

65 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

59 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

115 ms

qs139-d52082d1-c099-4e1a-a15a-0390057d3349-v2

qs139-d52082d1-c099-4e1a-a15a-0390057d3349-v2

26 ms

itrack360.appspot.com

itrack360.appspot.com

106 ms

container-min.js

container-min.js

182 ms

Accessibility Review

offthegridnews.net accessibility score

71

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

offthegridnews.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

offthegridnews.net SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Offthegridnews.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Offthegridnews.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

offthegridnews.net

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