Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

next.ft.com

Financial Times

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

717 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Next.ft.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

next.ft.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

world

126 ms

core.css

33 ms

style.min.css

42 ms

nonArticle.css

19 ms

opentag-27295-31253.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Next.ft.com, 9% (9 requests) were made to Spoor-api.ft.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Build.origami.ft.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) relates to the external source Stats.ft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 987.4 kB (69%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

437.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Next.ft.com main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 111.5 kB
  • After minification 109.4 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 83.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 918 B

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 9.5 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. Next Ft images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 833.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 380.3 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 833.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Next.ft.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (63%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Ft. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

next.ft.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

next.ft.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

next.ft.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 Next.ft.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 Next.ft.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 description is not detected on the main page of Next Ft. 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: