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cnn.net

CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Page Load Speed

22.3 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

21.9 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cnn.net page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 22.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

cnn.net

69 ms

www.cnn.com

13 ms

global.css

5 ms

page.css

13 ms

cnn-header.bb0d864591f5bdfc609e-first-bundle.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cnn.net, 19% (40 requests) were made to I.cdn.cnn.com and 7% (15 requests) were made to I2.cdn.cnn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Social-login.cnn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 MB (36%)

Content Size

11.7 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Cnn.net main page is 11.7 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 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 266.5 kB

  • Original 340.7 kB
  • After minification 338.3 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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 266.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. CNN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 3.9 MB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.4 MB
  • After compression 1.7 MB

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 3.9 MB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (57%)

Requests Now

178

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 178 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CNN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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