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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thenow.com

Ross Palombo | Anchor | Correspondent | Political | Investigative www.theNow.com

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

416 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thenow.com homepage info - get ready to check TheNow best content right away, or after learning these important things about thenow.com

Here @ theNow - A Collection of TV work by Award winning journalist Ross Palombo's work as a News Anchor, White House Correspondent, DC Bureau Chief, and Investigative Reporter for ABC, CBS, NBC, and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 416 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thenow.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thenow.com

416 ms

originTrials.41d7301a.bundle.min.js

56 ms

minified.js

63 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

57 ms

polyfill.min.js

345 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thenow.com, 25% (15 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com and 25% (15 requests) were made to I.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (727 ms) relates to the external source Player.vimeo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 423.8 kB (55%)

Content Size

763.8 kB

After Optimization

340.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thenow.com main page is 763.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 426.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 329.2 kB

  • Original 426.9 kB
  • After minification 425.3 kB
  • After compression 97.7 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 329.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 37.9 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. TheNow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 94.6 kB

  • Original 299.0 kB
  • After minification 298.9 kB
  • After compression 204.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 94.6 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (22%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TheNow. 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.thenow.com

www.thenow.com

416 ms

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56 ms

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minified.js

63 ms

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focus-within-polyfill.js

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polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

345 ms

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Accessibility Review

thenow.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

thenow.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

thenow.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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