Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

publicnarrative.org

Public Narrative | Helping journalists and nonprofits tell better stories.

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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For more than 30 years, Public Narrative has worked to connect the community with the media and make sure that all voices are represented in journalism.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publicnarrative.org page load time and found that the first response time was 206 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

publicnarrative.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

publicnarrative.org

206 ms

publicnarrative.org

805 ms

style.min.css

205 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

202 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Publicnarrative.org, 15% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 10% (4 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.5 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

902.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Publicnarrative.org 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 503.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 16.3 kB, which is 21% 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 62.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 503.9 kB
  • After minification 503.9 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. Public Narrative images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 124.9 kB

  • Original 454.9 kB
  • After minification 454.9 kB
  • After compression 330.0 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 124.9 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 300.7 kB

  • Original 353.7 kB
  • After minification 352.5 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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. Publicnarrative.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 300.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Narrative. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

publicnarrative.org accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

publicnarrative.org 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

publicnarrative.org SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Publicnarrative.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 Publicnarrative.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

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