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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

understandthetimes.org

Understand The Times, International

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

811 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Understandthetimes.org page load time and found that the first response time was 811 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

understandthetimes.org performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

understandthetimes.org

811 ms

jquery.js

331 ms

amazingaudioplayer.js

277 ms

initaudioplayer-1.css

170 ms

initaudioplayer-1.js

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Understandthetimes.org, 10% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (811 ms) belongs to the original domain Understandthetimes.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

552.5 kB

After Optimization

356.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Understandthetimes.org main page is 552.5 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 253.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 74.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 253.3 kB
  • After minification 248.2 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. Understand The Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 199.6 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 91.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 108.7 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Understandthetimes.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (11%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Understand The Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

understandthetimes.org

understandthetimes.org

811 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

331 ms

amazingaudioplayer.js

amazingaudioplayer.js

277 ms

initaudioplayer-1.css

initaudioplayer-1.css

170 ms

initaudioplayer-1.js

initaudioplayer-1.js

118 ms

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116 ms

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190 ms

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12 ms

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308 ms

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68 ms

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18 ms

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331 ms

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208 ms

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259 ms

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262 ms

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436 ms

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331 ms

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390 ms

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394 ms

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400 ms

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434 ms

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449 ms

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447 ms

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457 ms

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504 ms

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533 ms

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514 ms

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510 ms

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514 ms

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522 ms

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568 ms

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577 ms

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573 ms

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583 ms

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61 ms

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5 ms

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5 ms

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448 ms

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480 ms

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445 ms

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503 ms

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471 ms

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68 ms

Accessibility Review

understandthetimes.org accessibility score

55

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

understandthetimes.org best practices score

42

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

understandthetimes.org SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Understandthetimes.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Understandthetimes.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

understandthetimes.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Understand The Times. 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: