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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

politicker.com

Latest Political News & Articles | Observer

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

489 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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About Website

Visit politicker.com now to see the best up-to-date Politicker content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about politicker.com

Observer covers the most current political news and political opinion articles, including local, national, and international politics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politicker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 489 ms and then it took 2.6 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

politicker.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,670 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

489 ms

194 ms

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163 ms

174 ms

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197 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Politicker.com, 10% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (9 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (657 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.pubexchange.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 573.7 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

826.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Politicker.com main page is 1.4 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 833.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 117.9 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 85.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 413.3 kB
  • After minification 406.4 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. Politicker images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 455.1 kB

  • Original 833.2 kB
  • After minification 754.7 kB
  • After compression 378.1 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 455.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 31.4 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Politicker.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (66%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Politicker. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

politicker.com accessibility score

87

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

politicker.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

politicker.com SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Politicker.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 Politicker.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

politicker.com

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