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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

voanews.com

VOA - Voice of America English News

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

385 ms

voanews.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voanews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voanews.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.voanews.com

52 ms

VOA-en-US.css

27 ms

utag.sync.js

26 ms

iframe_api

151 ms

infographics.b

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Voanews.com, 19% (11 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Gdb.voanews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (932 ms) relates to the external source Gdb.voanews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

709.3 kB

After Optimization

589.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Voanews.com main page is 709.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 295.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 93.6 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 76.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 654 B

  • Original 270.5 kB
  • After minification 269.9 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. VOA News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 295.5 kB
  • After minification 295.0 kB
  • After compression 252.3 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 43.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 187 B

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Voanews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (70%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VOA 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 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.voanews.com

www.voanews.com

52 ms

VOA-en-US.css

VOA-en-US.css

27 ms

utag.sync.js

utag.sync.js

26 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

151 ms

infographics.b

infographics.b

56 ms

loader.b

loader.b

59 ms

widget-v3.php

widget-v3.php

216 ms

serviceWorkerInstall.js

serviceWorkerInstall.js

55 ms

conf.js

conf.js

55 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

326 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

321 ms

utag.js

utag.js

124 ms

res

res

86 ms

logo-compact.svg

logo-compact.svg

240 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

182 ms

logo-print.gif

logo-print.gif

69 ms

logo-print_color.png

logo-print_color.png

68 ms

image-placeholder.svg

image-placeholder.svg

178 ms

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370 ms

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www-widgetapi.js

29 ms

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502 ms

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501 ms

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898 ms

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561 ms

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493 ms

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932 ms

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Merriweather-Light_v2.woff

250 ms

SkolarSans-Cn-Bd_LatnCyrl_v2.3.woff

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75 ms

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136 ms

icons-custom.woff

icons-custom.woff

197 ms

utag.24.js

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108 ms

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utag.4.js

168 ms

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217 ms

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217 ms

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216 ms

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218 ms

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217 ms

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utag.75.js

218 ms

hljson

hljson

217 ms

rd

rd

54 ms

ga.js

ga.js

97 ms

quant.js

quant.js

198 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

216 ms

3540.js

3540.js

193 ms

chartbeat_video.js

chartbeat_video.js

31 ms

utag.v.js

utag.v.js

60 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

205 ms

id

id

184 ms

mab

mab

210 ms

ping

ping

203 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

148 ms

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72 ms

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73 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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106 ms

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19 ms

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Accessibility Review

voanews.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

voanews.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

voanews.com SEO score

85

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

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 Voanews.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 Voanews.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

voanews.com

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