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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

themotleyfool.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

557 ms

Page Rendered

782 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themotleyfool.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themotleyfool.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fool.com

194 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

50 ms

otSDKStub.js

63 ms

output.d21d02806c3a.css

71 ms

output.2a85a4c5a46c.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Themotleyfool.com, 11% (3 requests) were made to Fool.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) relates to the external source Fool.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

533.1 kB

After Optimization

400.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themotleyfool.com main page is 533.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 210.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 132.1 kB

  • Original 164.9 kB
  • After minification 164.5 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 132.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 210.0 kB
  • After minification 210.0 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 Motley Fool images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 133.5 kB
  • After compression 133.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 321 B

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Themotleyfool.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (38%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Motley Fool. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.fool.com

www.fool.com

194 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

50 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

63 ms

output.d21d02806c3a.css

output.d21d02806c3a.css

71 ms

output.2a85a4c5a46c.css

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88 ms

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43 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

170 ms

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19 ms

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158 ms

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160 ms

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161 ms

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51 ms

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77 ms

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101 ms

optimize.foolcdn.com

optimize.foolcdn.com

84 ms

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logo-tmf-primary-1-magenta-purple-reversed.svg

45 ms

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46 ms

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58 ms

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bg-cap-tickers.png

62 ms

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logo-tmf-primary-1-magenta-purple.svg

61 ms

location

location

175 ms

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output.1e32be502ccb.css

14 ms

Accessibility Review

themotleyfool.com accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

themotleyfool.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

themotleyfool.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Themotleyfool.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 Themotleyfool.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 Motley Fool. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: