Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

positivenews.com

Positive News | Good journalism about good things - Positive News

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Positivenews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

positivenews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.298

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

positivenews.com

39 ms

www.positive.news

431 ms

gtm.js

104 ms

js

135 ms

yqp8xyb.js

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Positivenews.com, 56% (59 requests) were made to Positive.news and 20% (21 requests) were made to Fonts.bunny.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Positive.news.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Positivenews.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. Images take 937.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 132.6 kB

  • Original 160.3 kB
  • After minification 160.2 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 132.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 937.6 kB
  • After minification 937.6 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. Positive News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 253.8 kB
  • After minification 253.8 kB
  • After compression 252.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 867 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 753 B

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. Positivenews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 867 B or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (71%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Positive News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

positivenews.com accessibility score

89

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

positivenews.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

SEO Factors

positivenews.com SEO score

89

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

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 Positivenews.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 Positivenews.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

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