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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

politicopro.com

POLITICO Pro | Policy Intelligence Platform

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

352 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politicopro.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

politicopro.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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11 ms

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29 ms

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110 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Politicopro.com, 14% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 12% (12 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Politicopro.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (32%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Politicopro.com main page is 5.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 145.3 kB

  • Original 186.1 kB
  • After minification 177.2 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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 145.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB

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. POLITICO Pro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 606.1 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 1.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 247.4 kB

  • Original 289.7 kB
  • After minification 287.5 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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. Politicopro.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (58%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of POLITICO Pro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

politicopro.com accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

politicopro.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

politicopro.com SEO score

93

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Politicopro.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Politicopro.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

politicopro.com

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