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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

politicstoday.news

Politics Today - Where People in Power get their News

Page Load Speed

531 ms in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

383 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politicstoday.news page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 383 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

politicstoday.news performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.politicstoday.news

148 ms

template_trillium

21 ms

js

76 ms

gpt.js

37 ms

widgets

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Politicstoday.news, 33% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 11% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (148 ms) belongs to the original domain Politicstoday.news.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.1 kB (30%)

Content Size

298.9 kB

After Optimization

209.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Politicstoday.news main page is 298.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 279.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 2.6 kB, which is 13% 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 14.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 279.0 kB
  • After minification 279.0 kB
  • After compression 204.6 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 74.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Politics Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.politicstoday.news

www.politicstoday.news

148 ms

template_trillium

template_trillium

21 ms

js

js

76 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

37 ms

widgets

widgets

76 ms

template

template

74 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

44 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

34 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

32 ms

Accessibility Review

politicstoday.news accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

politicstoday.news best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

politicstoday.news SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Politicstoday.news 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 Politicstoday.news 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

politicstoday.news

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: