Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

news.ets.org

News & Insights | ETS

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

708 ms

Page Rendered

308 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.ets.org page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.ets.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.ets.org

90 ms

font-awesome.min.css

13 ms

css

78 ms

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

dcs_tag.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original News.ets.org, 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (199 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.syndication.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.7 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of News.ets.org main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 822.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 138.1 kB
  • After minification 135.0 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 104.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 86.7 kB

  • Original 822.8 kB
  • After minification 736.0 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. Obviously, News ETS needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 468.1 kB

  • Original 722.4 kB
  • After minification 720.3 kB
  • After compression 254.3 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 468.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. News.ets.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News ETS. 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.

Accessibility Review

news.ets.org accessibility score

89

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 match their roles

Best Practices

news.ets.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news.ets.org SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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