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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

blackcommentator.com

The Black Commentator Apr 18, 2024 - Issue 997

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackcommentator.com page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackcommentator.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackcommentator.com

196 ms

bc.css

94 ms

mm_menu.js

125 ms

addthis_widget.js

14 ms

bc_animated_subscribe_promo.gif

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Blackcommentator.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to M.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (484 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackcommentator.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.6 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

829.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackcommentator.com main page is 1.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 812.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 67.3 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 67.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 142.1 kB

  • Original 812.4 kB
  • After minification 670.3 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, Black Commentator needs image optimization as it can save up to 142.1 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 269.4 kB

  • Original 408.1 kB
  • After minification 403.1 kB
  • After compression 138.7 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 269.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Blackcommentator.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (7%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Commentator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackcommentator.com

blackcommentator.com

196 ms

bc.css

bc.css

94 ms

mm_menu.js

mm_menu.js

125 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

14 ms

bc_animated_subscribe_promo.gif

bc_animated_subscribe_promo.gif

201 ms

lg-share-en.gif

lg-share-en.gif

184 ms

boost

boost

46 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

38 ms

whm_small.jpg

whm_small.jpg

159 ms

644_cover_trump_kkk.jpg

644_cover_trump_kkk.jpg

196 ms

644_cartoon_big_government_siler.jpg

644_cartoon_big_government_siler.jpg

199 ms

644_whm_cj_walker_malveaux_ed_bd.jpg

644_whm_cj_walker_malveaux_ed_bd.jpg

166 ms

644_vb_grieving_fathers.jpg

644_vb_grieving_fathers.jpg

178 ms

644_sa_newspapers_no_staff.jpg

644_sa_newspapers_no_staff.jpg

205 ms

644_tfr_dots_14.jpg

644_tfr_dots_14.jpg

383 ms

644_i_religious_utopia_nightmare.jpg

644_i_religious_utopia_nightmare.jpg

336 ms

644_cartoon_trump_zapiro.jpg

644_cartoon_trump_zapiro.jpg

370 ms

644_snb_trump_support.jpg

644_snb_trump_support.jpg

381 ms

644_ww_kobi_kambon.jpg

644_ww_kobi_kambon.jpg

390 ms

contact_publisher_over_border.gif

contact_publisher_over_border.gif

276 ms

ferguson_rogers.png

ferguson_rogers.png

484 ms

fletcher_beacon_ad.jpg

fletcher_beacon_ad.jpg

457 ms

bc_black_logo_all_992_new_text.png

bc_black_logo_all_992_new_text.png

214 ms

log_in_up.jpg

log_in_up.jpg

84 ms

navigate_bc_up.gif

navigate_bc_up.gif

86 ms

home_up.jpg

home_up.jpg

88 ms

subscribe_home_up.gif

subscribe_home_up.gif

91 ms

promo_600_plus.gif

promo_600_plus.gif

141 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

133 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

136 ms

amazon_xmas_ad_button_160_260.gif

amazon_xmas_ad_button_160_260.gif

213 ms

copyright2.gif

copyright2.gif

143 ms

end_mark.gif

end_mark.gif

208 ms

free_trial_animated_orange_smaller.gif

free_trial_animated_orange_smaller.gif

249 ms

want_to_be_bc_gc.gif

want_to_be_bc_gc.gif

212 ms

bc_store.gif

bc_store.gif

252 ms

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

50 ms

home_over.jpg

home_over.jpg

61 ms

olive_dot_over.gif

olive_dot_over.gif

61 ms

log_in_over.jpg

log_in_over.jpg

63 ms

navigate_bc_over.gif

navigate_bc_over.gif

64 ms

subscribe_home_over.gif

subscribe_home_over.gif

67 ms

Accessibility Review

blackcommentator.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blackcommentator.com best practices score

50

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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blackcommentator.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

blackcommentator.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Black Commentator. 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: