Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

si.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal's business coverage, brought to life | WSJ Live

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

70 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Si.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

si.wsj.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,350 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

si.wsj.com

12 ms

si.wsj.com

134 ms

conferences.wsj.com

822 ms

ace.min.js

47 ms

gpt.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Si.wsj.com, 33% (9 requests) were made to Conferences.wsj.com and 22% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (822 ms) relates to the external source Conferences.wsj.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

819.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Si.wsj.com main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 751.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 299.0 kB

  • Original 357.4 kB
  • After minification 356.7 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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 299.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 751.0 kB
  • After minification 751.0 kB
  • After compression 749.9 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 671 B

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Si.wsj.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (57%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Si WSJ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

si.wsj.com accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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.

Best Practices

si.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

si.wsj.com SEO score

83

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

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

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 Si.wsj.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 Si.wsj.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

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