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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

pbsnewshour.org

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

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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PBS News Hour 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 Woodruf...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pbsnewshour.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.3 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

pbsnewshour.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pbsnewshour.org

60 ms

newshour

13 ms

170 ms

32 ms

app.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pbsnewshour.org, 58% (29 requests) were made to D3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net and 14% (7 requests) were made to Pbs.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (488 ms) relates to the external source Pbs.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

963.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Pbsnewshour.org main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 601.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 226.6 kB

  • Original 291.3 kB
  • After minification 263.0 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 226.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 601.7 kB
  • After minification 585.9 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. PBS News Hour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 128 B

  • Original 313.4 kB
  • After minification 313.4 kB
  • After compression 313.2 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 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PBS News Hour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pbsnewshour.org

pbsnewshour.org

60 ms

newshour

newshour

13 ms

170 ms

32 ms

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app.css

59 ms

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56 ms

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52 ms

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49 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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213 ms

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52 ms

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281 ms

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149 ms

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130 ms

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129 ms

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129 ms

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129 ms

gpt.js

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196 ms

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41 ms

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41 ms

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41 ms

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39 ms

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39 ms

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92 ms

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80 ms

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ajax-controller

97 ms

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148 ms

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177 ms

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175 ms

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80 ms

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93 ms

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94 ms

Publico-Medium.eot

Publico-Medium.eot

488 ms

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22 ms

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59 ms

container.html

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24 ms

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16 ms

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107 ms

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ufs_web_display.js

23 ms

Accessibility Review

pbsnewshour.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

pbsnewshour.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

pbsnewshour.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 Pbsnewshour.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 Pbsnewshour.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

pbsnewshour.org

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