Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

national.suntimes.com screenshot

About Website

Visit national.suntimes.com now to see the best up-to-date National Suntimes content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about national.suntimes.com

In-depth, national U.S. news coverage. Breaking national news in sports, entertainment, politics, and more.

Visit national.suntimes.com

Key Findings

We analyzed National.suntimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

national.suntimes.com performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

national.suntimes.com

172 ms

data.js

284 ms

min.search.css

112 ms

min.front-page.css

109 ms

min.libraries.js

1174 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original National.suntimes.com, 52% (30 requests) were made to Bullseye-prod.aggrego.org and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source A.postrelease.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (50%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of National.suntimes.com main page is 3.5 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 267.8 kB

  • Original 318.8 kB
  • After minification 307.3 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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 267.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. National Suntimes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 646.0 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 1.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 192.1 kB

  • Original 230.6 kB
  • After minification 230.3 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. National.suntimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 192.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (23%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Suntimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

national.suntimes.com SEO score

0

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 National.suntimes.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 National.suntimes.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 National Suntimes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: