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Visit discovery.comWe analyzed Discovery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 79.1 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 were 15 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.
discovery.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 243 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Discovery.com, 40% (96 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 36% (87 requests) were made to Api.discovery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.4 sec) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.
Page size can be reduced by 5.3 MB (45%)
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In fact, the total size of Discovery.com 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 646.3 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 646.3 kB or 86% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 42.1 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. Discovery images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 2.5 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 2.5 MB or 70% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 2.1 MB
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. Discovery.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 MB or 82% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (27%)
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The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discovery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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discovery.com accessibility score
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
[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents
[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled
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
Links do not have a discernible name
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
Impact
Issue
[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
discovery.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools
discovery.com SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
Links are not crawlable
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Discovery.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 Discovery.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.
discovery.com
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Discovery. 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: