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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

themoscowtimes.com

The Moscow Times

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

367 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

824 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themoscowtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 367 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themoscowtimes.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,260 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.224

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themoscowtimes.com

367 ms

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379 ms

www.themoscowtimes.com

692 ms

main.css

904 ms

slick.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Themoscowtimes.com, 65% (59 requests) were made to Static.themoscowtimes.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Static.themoscowtimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 683.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themoscowtimes.com main page is 3.7 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 103.7 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 110.3 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 103.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 224.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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 Moscow Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

  • Original 248.1 kB
  • After minification 227.9 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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 154.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 200.3 kB

  • Original 260.1 kB
  • After minification 256.4 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Themoscowtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 200.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (26%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

49

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Moscow Times. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

themoscowtimes.com accessibility score

75

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

themoscowtimes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

themoscowtimes.com SEO score

83

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

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 Themoscowtimes.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 Themoscowtimes.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 Moscow Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: