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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

barternews.com

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Page Load Speed

608 ms in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

328 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barternews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 493 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barternews.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barternews.com

115 ms

menu.js

39 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

8 ms

Top-Image.jpg

68 ms

pitchingperformance.jpg

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Barternews.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (115 ms) belongs to the original domain Barternews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

395.7 kB

After Optimization

310.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Barternews.com main page is 395.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 274.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 92.5 kB
  • After minification 90.4 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 83.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 274.4 kB
  • After minification 273.3 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. Barter News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 984 B

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barter News. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

barternews.com accessibility score

54

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

barternews.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

barternews.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barternews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Barternews.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Barter News. 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: