Access thedefensepost.com. The Defense Post • Global defense news, analysis and opinion

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value

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.9 s

0/100

10%

thedefensepost.com

101 ms

thedefensepost.com

30 ms

style.css

11 ms

frontend.min.css

15 ms

flatpickr.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Thedefensepost.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (783 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thedefensepost.com main page is 5.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 211.1 kB

Original 246.0 kB
After minification 229.2 kB
After compression 34.9 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 211.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 250.1 kB

Original 5.3 MB
After minification 5.1 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. The Defense Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

Original 223.8 kB
After minification 223.8 kB
After compression 207.4 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

Original 107.2 kB
After minification 89.2 kB
After compression 75.9 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. Thedefensepost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Defense Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Thedefensepost.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 Thedefensepost.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

thedefensepost.com

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

The Defense Post • Global defense news, analysis and opinion

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

thedefensepost.com

thedefensepost.com

style.css

frontend.min.css

flatpickr.min.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

thedefensepost.com

thedefensepost.com

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