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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

blogs.militarytimes.com

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Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

859 ms

Page Rendered

107 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.militarytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 966 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.militarytimes.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.militarytimes.com

41 ms

gpt.js

20 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

10 ms

16 ms

css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.militarytimes.com, 18% (7 requests) were made to 2qr4lu3nltj3u2j272zqp1w5.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to I1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (143 ms) relates to the external source Militarytimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 231.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

421.5 kB

After Optimization

190.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.militarytimes.com main page is 421.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 322.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 12.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 68.5 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. Blogs Military Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 208.3 kB

  • Original 322.0 kB
  • After minification 316.8 kB
  • After compression 113.6 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 208.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Blogs.militarytimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (47%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Military Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.militarytimes.com

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41 ms

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20 ms

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61 ms

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34 ms

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13 ms

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77 ms

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77 ms

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78 ms

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34 ms

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30 ms

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54 ms

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Accessibility Review

blogs.militarytimes.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

blogs.militarytimes.com 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

blogs.militarytimes.com SEO score

92

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

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 Blogs.militarytimes.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 Blogs.militarytimes.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

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