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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thehackernews.com

The Hacker News | #1 Trusted Cybersecurity News Site

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

563 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehackernews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 2 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

thehackernews.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehackernews.com

153 ms

cloudflare.min.js

8 ms

css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

rocket.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Thehackernews.com, 15% (14 requests) were made to 3.bp.blogspot.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to 1.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) relates to the external source Sumome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 615.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehackernews.com main page is 5.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

  • Original 138.8 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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 108.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 304.6 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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 Hacker News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 180.7 kB

  • Original 310.8 kB
  • After minification 310.7 kB
  • After compression 130.2 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 180.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Thehackernews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (31%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hacker News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thehackernews.com

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153 ms

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8 ms

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22 ms

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7 ms

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6 ms

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130 ms

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45 ms

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119 ms

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119 ms

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55 ms

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135 ms

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Accessibility Review

thehackernews.com accessibility score

90

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

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

Best Practices

thehackernews.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thehackernews.com SEO score

93

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

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 Thehackernews.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 Thehackernews.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

thehackernews.com

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