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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

blogs.stripes.com

Stars and Stripes | The U.S. military's independent news source.

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

blogs.stripes.com screenshot

About Website

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U.S. military news organization providing independent news and information to the military community across the globe.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.stripes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.stripes.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,670 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.stripes.com

28 ms

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27 ms

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124 ms

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86 ms

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83 ms

Our browser made a total of 166 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.stripes.com, 45% (74 requests) were made to Stripes.com and 8% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) relates to the external source Us2.campaign-archive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (28%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.stripes.com main page is 3.7 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. 80% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 129.8 kB

  • Original 158.7 kB
  • After minification 141.1 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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 17.6 kB, which is 11% 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 129.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Blogs Stripes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 525.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 782.3 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 525.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 338.2 kB

  • Original 395.8 kB
  • After minification 297.4 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. Blogs.stripes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 338.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (38%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

93

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Stripes. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blogs.stripes.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible 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

blogs.stripes.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blogs.stripes.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blogs.stripes.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 Blogs.stripes.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

blogs.stripes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blogs Stripes. 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: