Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

buzzfeed.com

BuzzFeed

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

976 ms

buzzfeed.com screenshot

About Website

Visit buzzfeed.com now to see the best up-to-date Buzz Feed content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about buzzfeed.com

BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buzzfeed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buzzfeed.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,090 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.buzzfeed.com

224 ms

gpt.js

10 ms

prototype.1.7-compact.js

106 ms

es-es.js

101 ms

mx.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 212 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Buzzfeed.com, 49% (104 requests) were made to Img.buzzfeed.com and 18% (38 requests) were made to Webappstatic.buzzfeed.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Alleyezonme-collection.buzzfeed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (37%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Buzzfeed.com main page is 3.8 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. 85% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 502.7 kB

  • Original 596.5 kB
  • After minification 514.6 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 81.9 kB, which is 14% 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 502.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Buzz Feed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 209.7 kB

  • Original 344.8 kB
  • After minification 344.8 kB
  • After compression 135.2 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 209.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 606.0 kB

  • Original 710.7 kB
  • After minification 582.9 kB
  • After compression 104.8 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. Buzzfeed.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 606.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (35%)

Requests Now

200

After Optimization

130

The browser has sent 200 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buzz Feed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

buzzfeed.com accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

buzzfeed.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buzzfeed.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Buzzfeed.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 Buzzfeed.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 Buzz Feed. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: