Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thestory.org

Home | Bringing The World Home To You | WUNC

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

994 ms

thestory.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thestory.org homepage info - get ready to check Thestory best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about thestory.org

High-quality news, cultural and entertainment content that creates a more informed and engaged community in North Carolina.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thestory.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestory.org

67 ms

www.wunc.org

472 ms

All.min.ab6eee59525552b9100e33650d638008.gz.css

46 ms

All.min.4b4833d6fd1d7b8e09869a5338764779.gz.js

121 ms

gpt.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thestory.org, 66% (65 requests) were made to Npr.brightspotcdn.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) relates to the external source Wunc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Thestory.org main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 312.0 kB

  • Original 364.5 kB
  • After minification 299.5 kB
  • After compression 52.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 65.0 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 312.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 59.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Thestory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 507.4 kB
  • After minification 507.4 kB
  • After compression 505.5 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Thestory.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (26%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thestory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thestory.org 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.

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

thestory.org best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thestory.org SEO score

85

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

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 Thestory.org 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 Thestory.org 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

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