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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

twsj.com

The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

795 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

761 ms

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About Website

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Breaking news and analysis from the U.S. and around the world at WSJ.com. Politics, Economics, Markets, Life & Arts, and in-depth reporting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Twsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 795 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

twsj.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wsj.com

795 ms

video.min.js

1075 ms

audioplayer.min.js

1006 ms

ace.min.js

858 ms

uac.min.1.0.70.js

858 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Twsj.com, 14% (4 requests) were made to Wsj.com and 14% (4 requests) were made to Video-api.wsj.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Video-api.wsj.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (73%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Twsj.com main page is 5.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 3.7 MB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB
  • After compression 367.3 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 3.7 MB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 274.8 kB
  • After minification 271.7 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. Twsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 737.0 kB
  • After minification 737.0 kB
  • After compression 737.0 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 115 B

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. Twsj.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Twsj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wsj.com

www.wsj.com

795 ms

video.min.js

video.min.js

1075 ms

audioplayer.min.js

audioplayer.min.js

1006 ms

ace.min.js

ace.min.js

858 ms

uac.min.1.0.70.js

uac.min.1.0.70.js

858 ms

djcmp.min.1.0.56.js

djcmp.min.1.0.56.js

858 ms

21259101085

21259101085

1011 ms

cxense-candy.js

cxense-candy.js

1000 ms

wsj-logo-big-black.165e51cc.svg

wsj-logo-big-black.165e51cc.svg

993 ms

im-987247

im-987247

984 ms

B3-BQ140_DANNEI_AM_20180906155439.jpg

B3-BQ140_DANNEI_AM_20180906155439.jpg

1063 ms

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BN-SE117_STERN__A_20170219231355.jpg

977 ms

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9ea2581c-7f88-4374-97dc-8f769f0421a2

1051 ms

im-69349780

im-69349780

1051 ms

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1017 ms

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im-986895

1047 ms

im-979581

im-979581

1070 ms

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im-987357

1047 ms

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im-987286

1047 ms

AM

AM

1047 ms

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im-987337

1046 ms

im-987341

im-987341

1070 ms

im-987298

im-987298

1069 ms

runtime.9b2833aa7669e5.js

runtime.9b2833aa7669e5.js

42 ms

vendors.70a4c28e152155.js

vendors.70a4c28e152155.js

130 ms

main.e8bb9bbbbe8d8f.js

main.e8bb9bbbbe8d8f.js

151 ms

video.min.css

video.min.css

19 ms

audioplayer.min.css

audioplayer.min.css

62 ms

Accessibility Review

twsj.com accessibility score

79

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

twsj.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

twsj.com SEO score

98

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

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