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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

commentary.com

Welcome to Dr Raymond Cheng's Commentary.com

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

753 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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

Fight against corruption, bribery and graft, socioeconomic and political development, peaceful movements, language, culture, identity and ideology - all from the perspective of language (linguistics) ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commentary.com page load time and found that the first response time was 753 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

commentary.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commentary.com

753 ms

commentary.css

114 ms

block.gif

118 ms

header_title.jpg

288 ms

japan.gif

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Commentary.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Ecx.images-amazon.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Commentary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Commentary.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 127.9 kB
  • After minification 101.4 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.5 kB, which is 21% 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 101.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Commentary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 212.7 kB
  • After minification 212.6 kB
  • After compression 74.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 137.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 204.1 kB

  • Original 246.1 kB
  • After minification 245.8 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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. Commentary.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (29%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

91

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Commentary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

commentary.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

commentary.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

SEO Factors

commentary.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Commentary.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 Commentary.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

commentary.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Commentary. 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: