Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

thenewsspike.com

The News Spike is under construction

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

831 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenewsspike.com page load time and found that the first response time was 831 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thenewsspike.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thenewsspike.com

831 ms

analytics.js

21 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

172 ms

easy-social-share-buttons.css

140 ms

styles.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Thenewsspike.com, 10% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 9% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 646.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

847.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thenewsspike.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 640.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 99.4 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 119.0 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 99.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 640.3 kB
  • After minification 627.8 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. The News Spike images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 341.1 kB

  • Original 503.7 kB
  • After minification 487.3 kB
  • After compression 162.6 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 341.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 193.5 kB

  • Original 227.9 kB
  • After minification 183.0 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. Thenewsspike.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 193.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (60%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The News Spike. 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 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thenewsspike.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thenewsspike.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

thenewsspike.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thenewsspike.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 Thenewsspike.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 The News Spike. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: