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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

thefirstreporter.com

The First Reporter | Business & Finance News Blog

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

633 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

735 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefirstreporter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 633 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefirstreporter.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.826

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefirstreporter.com

633 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

109 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.css

136 ms

jquery-ui-spinner.css

112 ms

calendar-jos.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Thefirstreporter.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (633 ms) belongs to the original domain Thefirstreporter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 385.2 kB (66%)

Content Size

583.4 kB

After Optimization

198.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefirstreporter.com main page is 583.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 296.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 13.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 61.0 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 First Reporter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 203.9 kB

  • Original 296.0 kB
  • After minification 284.0 kB
  • After compression 92.1 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 203.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 161.7 kB

  • Original 200.7 kB
  • After minification 168.0 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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. Thefirstreporter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (81%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The First Reporter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thefirstreporter.com

thefirstreporter.com

633 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

109 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.css

136 ms

jquery-ui-spinner.css

jquery-ui-spinner.css

112 ms

calendar-jos.css

calendar-jos.css

100 ms

form_maker_frontend.css

form_maker_frontend.css

137 ms

css

css

41 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

158 ms

style.css

style.css

184 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

234 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

181 ms

js

js

36 ms

if_gmap_front_end.js

if_gmap_front_end.js

206 ms

jelly.min.js

jelly.min.js

209 ms

file-upload.js

file-upload.js

227 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

342 ms

calendar_function.js

calendar_function.js

339 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

392 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

383 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

373 ms

slider.min.js

slider.min.js

395 ms

button.min.js

button.min.js

399 ms

spinner.min.js

spinner.min.js

474 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

473 ms

effect-shake.min.js

effect-shake.min.js

410 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

478 ms

functions.js

functions.js

472 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

470 ms

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116 ms

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115 ms

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116 ms

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187 ms

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188 ms

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189 ms

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Genericons.svg

190 ms

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Accessibility Review

thefirstreporter.com accessibility score

80

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thefirstreporter.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

SEO Factors

thefirstreporter.com SEO score

91

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

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 Thefirstreporter.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 Thefirstreporter.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 First Reporter. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: