Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

zdnet.com

News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

404 ms

Page Rendered

828 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing ZDNET content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about zdnet.com

ZDNET news and advice keep professionals prepared to embrace innovation and ready to build a better future.

Visit zdnet.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Zdnet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zdnet.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.295

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zdnet.com

53 ms

www.zdnet.com

196 ms

bidbarrel-zdnet-rv.min.js

130 ms

otSDKStub.js

153 ms

40d7c16.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Zdnet.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 7% (1 request) were made to At.adtech.redventures.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (196 ms) belongs to the original domain Zdnet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Zdnet.com main page is 1.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 972.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 524.4 kB

  • Original 665.1 kB
  • After minification 662.0 kB
  • After compression 140.8 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 524.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 290.5 kB
  • After minification 290.5 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. ZDNET images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 972.7 kB
  • After minification 972.7 kB
  • After compression 970.8 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (83%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

2

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ZDNET. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

zdnet.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

zdnet.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

zdnet.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

    UTF-8

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