Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

slow-journalism.com

Delayed Gratification | The Slow Journalism Magazine | Last to breaking news

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

530 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

682 ms

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About Website

Visit slow-journalism.com now to see the best up-to-date Slow Journalism content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about slow-journalism.com

Delayed Gratification is the world's first Slow Journalism magazine, a beautiful quarterly publication which is proud to be 'Last to Breaking News'.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slow-journalism.com page load time and found that the first response time was 530 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

slow-journalism.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,700 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.slow-journalism.com

530 ms

base.css

81 ms

main.css

239 ms

magiczoomplus.css

245 ms

style.min.css

340 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Slow-journalism.com, 36% (23 requests) were made to Eo3sc3uiq6f.exactdn.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (998 ms) relates to the external source Eo3sc3uiq6f.exactdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Slow-journalism.com main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 62.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Slow Journalism images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 272.0 kB
  • After minification 272.0 kB
  • After compression 269.1 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 117.8 kB
  • After compression 109.9 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. Slow-journalism.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slow Journalism. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

slow-journalism.com accessibility score

63

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

slow-journalism.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

slow-journalism.com SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Slow-journalism.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Slow-journalism.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 Slow Journalism. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: