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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

blog.independent.org

The Beacon | The Blog of the Independent Institute

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.independent.org page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.independent.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.independent.org

54 ms

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1252 ms

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37 ms

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31 ms

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23 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.independent.org, 34% (31 requests) were made to Independent.org and 3% (3 requests) were made to Indinst.disqus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Blog.independent.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.independent.org main page is 6.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 122.0 kB

  • Original 148.1 kB
  • After minification 136.3 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 122.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.3 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. Blog Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 171.8 kB
  • After minification 171.8 kB
  • After compression 139.4 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 32.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. Blog.independent.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (38%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blog.independent.org accessibility score

89

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.independent.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.independent.org SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.independent.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 Blog.independent.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

blog.independent.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog Independent. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: