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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% 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

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

professional.wsj.com

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

Page Load Speed

572 ms in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

487 ms

Page Rendered

73 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Professional Wsj content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about professional.wsj.com

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 Professional.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 560 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

professional.wsj.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

professional.wsj.com

12 ms

professional.wsj.com

20 ms

www.wsj.com

46 ms

c.js

22 ms

361 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Professional.wsj.com, 44% (4 requests) were made to Static.captcha-delivery.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Wsj.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Geo.captcha-delivery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

23.6 kB

After Optimization

14.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Professional.wsj.com main page is 23.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 11.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 477 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 689 B

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 477 B or 41% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 640 B

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Professional Wsj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 7.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 682 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Professional.wsj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 682 B or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Professional Wsj. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

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professional.wsj.com

12 ms

professional.wsj.com

professional.wsj.com

20 ms

www.wsj.com

www.wsj.com

46 ms

c.js

c.js

22 ms

361 ms

index.css

index.css

22 ms

font-face.css

font-face.css

23 ms

logo.png

logo.png

335 ms

loading_spinner.gif

loading_spinner.gif

32 ms

Accessibility Review

professional.wsj.com accessibility score

83

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

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.

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

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

Best Practices

professional.wsj.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

professional.wsj.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Professional.wsj.com 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 Professional.wsj.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Professional Wsj. 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: