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Report Summary

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    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

the-updates.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-updates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 166 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

the-updates.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.356

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-updates.com

166 ms

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344 ms

frontend.min.css

33 ms

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Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original The-updates.com, 18% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) belongs to the original domain The-updates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

949.9 kB

After Optimization

736.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The-updates.com main page is 949.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 550.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 178.1 kB

  • Original 212.4 kB
  • After minification 212.3 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 178.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 172.9 kB
  • After minification 170.4 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. The Updates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 550.3 kB
  • After minification 550.3 kB
  • After compression 518.0 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 38 B

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. The-updates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (84%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Updates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

the-updates.com accessibility score

86

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

the-updates.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

the-updates.com SEO score

84

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

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 The-updates.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 The-updates.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 The Updates. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: