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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

signs-of-the-times.org

Welcome to nginx!

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Signs-of-the-times.org page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

signs-of-the-times.org performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.975

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

signs-of-the-times.org

223 ms

www.sott.net

461 ms

sottcss_14.css

23 ms

sottjs_04.js

32 ms

timeago.en.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Signs-of-the-times.org, 77% (40 requests) were made to Sott.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Mc.yandex.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (959 ms) relates to the external source Mc.yandex.ru.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Signs-of-the-times.org main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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 96.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Signs Of The Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 85.2 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 85.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Signs-of-the-times.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (16%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Signs Of The Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

signs-of-the-times.org

signs-of-the-times.org

223 ms

www.sott.net

www.sott.net

461 ms

sottcss_14.css

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23 ms

sottjs_04.js

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32 ms

timeago.en.js

timeago.en.js

42 ms

tag.js

tag.js

959 ms

worldview

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131 ms

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17 ms

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all-btnz.png

310 ms

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23 ms

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331 ms

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330 ms

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26 ms

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35 ms

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34 ms

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54 ms

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54 ms

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58 ms

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59 ms

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365 ms

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175 ms

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517 ms

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658 ms

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648 ms

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94 ms

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43 ms

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35 ms

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289 ms

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14 ms

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35 ms

Accessibility Review

signs-of-the-times.org accessibility score

71

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

signs-of-the-times.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

signs-of-the-times.org SEO score

76

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

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 Signs-of-the-times.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 Signs-of-the-times.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

signs-of-the-times.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Signs Of The Times. 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: