Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

wallstreetdispatch.com

Wall Street Dispatch | Informed commentary and views on financial markets

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

528 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wallstreetdispatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 528 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wallstreetdispatch.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,850 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wallstreetdispatch.com

528 ms

adsbygoogle.js

104 ms

flbuttons.min.js

60 ms

style.css

85 ms

prettyPhoto.css

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Wallstreetdispatch.com, 11% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Intensedebate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (981 ms) belongs to the original domain Wallstreetdispatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

673.1 kB

After Optimization

486.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Wallstreetdispatch.com main page is 673.1 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. Images take 373.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 49.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 373.2 kB
  • After minification 329.3 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. Obviously, Wall Street Dispatch needs image optimization as it can save up to 43.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 69.3 kB

  • Original 202.3 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 133.0 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 69.3 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Wallstreetdispatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (53%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wall Street Dispatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wallstreetdispatch.com accessibility score

76

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

wallstreetdispatch.com best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wallstreetdispatch.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Wallstreetdispatch.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 Wallstreetdispatch.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 description is not detected on the main page of Wall Street Dispatch. 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: