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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

splinter.com

Home - Splinter

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

422 ms

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About Website

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

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Splinter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

splinter.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

splinter.com

52 ms

www.splinter.com

251 ms

gtm.js

152 ms

htlbid.css

29 ms

htlbid.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Splinter.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Img.pastemagazine.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Htlbid.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Splinter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

413.9 kB

After Optimization

328.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Splinter.com main page is 413.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 198.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 85.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 28.7 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. Splinter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 198.5 kB
  • After minification 198.5 kB
  • After compression 198.5 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 24 B

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 78.6 kB
  • After compression 78.6 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. Splinter.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Splinter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

splinter.com

splinter.com

52 ms

www.splinter.com

www.splinter.com

251 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

152 ms

htlbid.css

htlbid.css

29 ms

htlbid.js

htlbid.js

39 ms

autoptimize_2ca25741b1e8ce8ce81ce968c64162a0.css

autoptimize_2ca25741b1e8ce8ce81ce968c64162a0.css

21 ms

autoptimize_f4156c7909be641d57022c84908c0038.css

autoptimize_f4156c7909be641d57022c84908c0038.css

52 ms

js

js

184 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

41 ms

pm_custom.js

pm_custom.js

43 ms

b-00aw.min.js

b-00aw.min.js

26 ms

autoptimize_85db6de5b0c5643d3b644cdc99a6f05a.js

autoptimize_85db6de5b0c5643d3b644cdc99a6f05a.js

40 ms

Houthi-Red-Sea-ship-sunk-1-e1718901831250.jpg

Houthi-Red-Sea-ship-sunk-1-e1718901831250.jpg

124 ms

landing-header-bg.png

landing-header-bg.png

143 ms

horse_hill_uk_supreme_court_fossil_fuels_lead-e1718898065663.jpg

horse_hill_uk_supreme_court_fossil_fuels_lead-e1718898065663.jpg

102 ms

florida_flooding_climate_disasters_lead-e1718743930231.jpg

florida_flooding_climate_disasters_lead-e1718743930231.jpg

103 ms

j

j

3 ms

b-00aw

b-00aw

27 ms

sync

sync

121 ms

img

img

148 ms

143 ms

usersync.aspx

usersync.aspx

78 ms

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W0uaOFJeMt8NTM28g4m3PpHwZlsNP4CcXEzMgA=

1 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

43 ms

demconf.jpg

demconf.jpg

4 ms

23 ms

sync

sync

17 ms

pixel

pixel

71 ms

live_intent_sync

live_intent_sync

67 ms

52164

52164

15 ms

sync

sync

51 ms

Accessibility Review

splinter.com accessibility score

93

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

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

splinter.com 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

splinter.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Splinter.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Splinter.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

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