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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

usnews.net

US News | Late Breaking Coverage | Nation & Cities

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

705 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing US News content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about usnews.net

U.S. News.Net provides late breaking news from across the nation. Includes coverage of individual cities and items of national interest.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 2.9 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

usnews.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.257

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usnews.net

53 ms

www.usnews.net

681 ms

foundation.min.css

65 ms

red_style.css

74 ms

font-awesome.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Usnews.net, 40% (33 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 16% (13 requests) were made to Static.themainstreammedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usnews.net main page is 1.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 714.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.7 kB

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 13.0 kB, which is 20% 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 53.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 714.8 kB
  • After minification 683.0 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. US News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 408.1 kB
  • After minification 408.1 kB
  • After compression 405.6 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 381 B

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 75.2 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. Usnews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (23%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of US News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

usnews.net accessibility score

50

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

usnews.net SEO score

86

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

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

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 Usnews.net 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 Usnews.net 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

usnews.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of US News. 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: