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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 40

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

thechannelinsider.com

The Channel Insider - Technology Channel News

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

353 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thechannelinsider.com page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 3.6 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

thechannelinsider.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thechannelinsider.com

647 ms

p1.css

102 ms

common_util_js.js

347 ms

style.min.css

591 ms

js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Thechannelinsider.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to In.getclicky.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to 102.112.2o7.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (647 ms) belongs to the original domain Thechannelinsider.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (49%)

Content Size

160.8 kB

After Optimization

82.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thechannelinsider.com main page is 160.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 80.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 80.0 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 65.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 440 B

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 33.9 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 Channel Insider images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 4.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Thechannelinsider.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (68%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Channel Insider. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thechannelinsider.com

www.thechannelinsider.com

647 ms

p1.css

p1.css

102 ms

common_util_js.js

common_util_js.js

347 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

591 ms

js

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43 ms

style.css

style.css

343 ms

display_date.js

display_date.js

587 ms

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585 ms

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200 ms

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300 ms

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124 ms

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188 ms

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186 ms

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106 ms

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248 ms

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249 ms

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449 ms

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505 ms

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Accessibility Review

thechannelinsider.com accessibility score

40

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

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thechannelinsider.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thechannelinsider.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thechannelinsider.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 Thechannelinsider.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 Channel Insider. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: