Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

555 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nowstories.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nowstories.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.nowstories.com

1685 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

373 ms

css

25 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

517 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

514 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Nowstories.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Nowstories.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 741.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

561.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Nowstories.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 654.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 85.2 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.8 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 85.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 309.0 kB
  • After minification 290.3 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. Nowstories images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 426.4 kB

  • Original 654.0 kB
  • After minification 595.1 kB
  • After compression 227.6 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 426.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 211.2 kB

  • Original 244.1 kB
  • After minification 190.0 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. Nowstories.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (58%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nowstories. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nowstories.com accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

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

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

Best Practices

nowstories.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

SEO Factors

nowstories.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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nowstories.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Nowstories.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 Nowstories. 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: