Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

recipes.usatoday.com

Thanksgiving Reviews, Features, and Deals - Reviewed

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recipes.usatoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recipes.usatoday.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recipes.usatoday.com

202 ms

thanksgiving

117 ms

stylesheets-2be54550.css

68 ms

application_synchronous-9eb7e12a0c539dae8546.js

227 ms

api.js

707 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Recipes.usatoday.com, 34% (42 requests) were made to Reviewed-com-res.cloudinary.com and 14% (17 requests) were made to Reviewed.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Reviewed-com-res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Recipes.usatoday.com main page is 1.8 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. 85% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 121.0 kB

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 134.3 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 121.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Recipes Usatoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 299.0 kB
  • After minification 298.9 kB
  • After compression 276.6 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 402 B

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Recipes.usatoday.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (52%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recipes Usatoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recipes.usatoday.com accessibility score

74

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 IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

recipes.usatoday.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

recipes.usatoday.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Recipes.usatoday.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 Recipes.usatoday.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Recipes Usatoday. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: