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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

sof.news

SOF News - Special Operations News From Around the World

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

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About Website

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SOF News - Providing news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sof.news page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sof.news performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sof.news

179 ms

sof.news

799 ms

style.min.css

70 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

140 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Sof.news, 42% (15 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (799 ms) belongs to the original domain Sof.news.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

691.2 kB

After Optimization

500.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sof.news main page is 691.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 302.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 66.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 302.5 kB
  • After minification 302.5 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. SOF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 122.7 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 251.6 kB
  • After compression 128.9 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 122.7 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 53.9 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. Sof.news has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (42%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sof.news

sof.news

179 ms

sof.news

sof.news

799 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

70 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

140 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

187 ms

form-themes.css

form-themes.css

187 ms

css

css

53 ms

style.css

style.css

193 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

187 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

205 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

212 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

249 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

258 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

72 ms

counter.js

counter.js

63 ms

eu-cookie-law.min.js

eu-cookie-law.min.js

250 ms

e-202437.js

e-202437.js

36 ms

forms.js

forms.js

344 ms

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temporary-break.png

110 ms

sof-and-gpc.jpg

sof-and-gpc.jpg

110 ms

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111 ms

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map-us-mexico-border.jpg

120 ms

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121 ms

pararescue-chute.jpeg

pararescue-chute.jpeg

121 ms

map-route-ugly-baby.jpg

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121 ms

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119 ms

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120 ms

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124 ms

20220203-Afghans-interview-US-embassy-UAE.jpg

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124 ms

arctic-edge-2024-sub-600.jpeg

arctic-edge-2024-sub-600.jpeg

124 ms

navy-combatant-craft-nsw.jpg

navy-combatant-craft-nsw.jpg

124 ms

SRS-snipers-20240202-Norway.jpg

SRS-snipers-20240202-Norway.jpg

125 ms

sof-week-2024-registration.jpg

sof-week-2024-registration.jpg

124 ms

font

font

50 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

140 ms

t.php

t.php

146 ms

Accessibility Review

sof.news accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

sof.news 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

sof.news SEO score

98

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 Sof.news 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 Sof.news 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

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