Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

worldflash.com

News Ticker RSS -- Intelligent Information Agent by WorldFlash

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

973 ms

Page Rendered

206 ms

worldflash.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing World Flash content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about worldflash.com

WorldFlash is an Intelligent Information Agent for Windows 95/98/NT4/2K that displays up-to-the-minute news headlines, incoming email, stock quotes, weather forecasts, sports scores and more while you...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Worldflash.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

worldflash.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

worldflash.com

264 ms

styles.css

124 ms

urchin.js

21 ms

__utm.gif

16 ms

backgroundtile.gif

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Worldflash.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (429 ms) belongs to the original domain Worldflash.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.0 kB (65%)

Content Size

38.4 kB

After Optimization

13.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Worldflash.com main page is 38.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 30.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 23.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 621 B

  • Original 815 B
  • After minification 624 B
  • After compression 194 B

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. Worldflash.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 621 B or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (24%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of World Flash. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

worldflash.com accessibility score

60

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

worldflash.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

worldflash.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Worldflash.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Worldflash.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of World Flash. 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: