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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

newshour.pbs.org

PBS NewsHour: News, Analysis, Top Headlines, Live Coverage

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit newshour.pbs.org now to see the best up-to-date News Hour PBS content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about newshour.pbs.org

PBS NewsHour is a public media news organization with a nightly hour-long television broadcast and a robust digital footprint across the web and social media. Anchored by managing editor Judy Woodruff...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newshour.pbs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 2.4 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

newshour.pbs.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newshour.pbs.org

8 ms

11 ms

34 ms

app.css

54 ms

lazysizes.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newshour.pbs.org, 62% (32 requests) were made to D3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net and 10% (5 requests) were made to Pbs.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (586 ms) relates to the external source Googletagservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

907.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Newshour.pbs.org main page is 1.1 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. 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. Images take 620.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 188.6 kB

  • Original 242.6 kB
  • After minification 216.4 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.2 kB, which is 11% 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 188.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 620.5 kB
  • After minification 602.4 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. News Hour PBS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 250.8 kB
  • After minification 250.8 kB
  • After compression 250.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (38%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Hour PBS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newshour.pbs.org

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8 ms

11 ms

34 ms

app.css

app.css

54 ms

lazysizes.js

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51 ms

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48 ms

jquery.js

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47 ms

manifest.js

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45 ms

vendor.js

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47 ms

app.js

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47 ms

nhn_subscribe.min.js

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49 ms

gc.js

gc.js

45 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

264 ms

chartbeat.js

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130 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

586 ms

placeholder.jpg

placeholder.jpg

164 ms

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195 ms

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164 ms

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160 ms

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261 ms

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261 ms

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262 ms

fonh.png

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262 ms

newshour-west-logo.png

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260 ms

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261 ms

cpb-footer-trans.png

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431 ms

viewers-like-you.png

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432 ms

ajax-controller

ajax-controller

104 ms

ajax-controller

ajax-controller

106 ms

ajax-controller

ajax-controller

204 ms

mab

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303 ms

ping

ping

340 ms

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287 ms

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286 ms

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301 ms

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285 ms

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299 ms

akkurat-regular.woff

akkurat-regular.woff

298 ms

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298 ms

Publico-Bold.woff

Publico-Bold.woff

298 ms

Publico-Roman.woff

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298 ms

Publico-Italic.woff

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337 ms

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337 ms

js

js

178 ms

js

js

315 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

306 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

301 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

113 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

12 ms

collect

collect

69 ms

Accessibility Review

newshour.pbs.org accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

newshour.pbs.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newshour.pbs.org SEO score

84

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

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

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 Newshour.pbs.org 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 Newshour.pbs.org 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

newshour.pbs.org

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