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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

forecast.monocle.com

The Forecast - Magazine | Monocle

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

959 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forecast.monocle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forecast.monocle.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forecast.monocle.com

182 ms

styles.css

167 ms

jquery.min.js

243 ms

jquery.lazyload.min.js

165 ms

froogaloop2.min.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Forecast.monocle.com, 18% (5 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Monocle.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) relates to the external source I.vimeocdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 441.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

834.3 kB

After Optimization

392.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forecast.monocle.com main page is 834.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 446.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.7 kB, which is 31% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 17.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 480 B

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 213.7 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. Forecast Monocle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 290.0 kB

  • Original 446.9 kB
  • After minification 446.9 kB
  • After compression 156.9 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 290.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 133.7 kB

  • Original 151.8 kB
  • After minification 140.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Forecast.monocle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (37%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forecast Monocle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forecast.monocle.com

forecast.monocle.com

182 ms

styles.css

styles.css

167 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

243 ms

jquery.lazyload.min.js

jquery.lazyload.min.js

165 ms

froogaloop2.min.js

froogaloop2.min.js

17 ms

functions-min.js

functions-min.js

165 ms

bg_noise_light.png

bg_noise_light.png

201 ms

forecast.jpg

forecast.jpg

337 ms

img.png

img.png

103 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

114047120

114047120

103 ms

Plantin.ttf

Plantin.ttf

279 ms

PlantinBold.ttf

PlantinBold.ttf

280 ms

HelveticaNeueBold.ttf

HelveticaNeueBold.ttf

279 ms

HelveticaNeueRoman.ttf

HelveticaNeueRoman.ttf

435 ms

PlantinBoldCondensed.ttf

PlantinBoldCondensed.ttf

327 ms

icomoon-x-regular-webfont.woff

icomoon-x-regular-webfont.woff

355 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

bg_noise_light.png

bg_noise_light.png

472 ms

collect

collect

86 ms

player.js

player.js

104 ms

player.css

player.css

89 ms

ga.js

ga.js

70 ms

vuid.min.js

vuid.min.js

88 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

proxy.html

proxy.html

55 ms

499585736.jpg

499585736.jpg

833 ms

120181.png

120181.png

61 ms

Accessibility Review

forecast.monocle.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forecast.monocle.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

SEO Factors

forecast.monocle.com SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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 Forecast.monocle.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 Forecast.monocle.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 Forecast Monocle. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: