Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

leanforward.msnbc.com

MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leanforward.msnbc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

leanforward.msnbc.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value91,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value111.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leanforward.msnbc.com

238 ms

www.msnbc.com

103 ms

57de75eaa00cd692.css

174 ms

fontface.css

189 ms

header.css

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Leanforward.msnbc.com, 54% (67 requests) were made to Media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com and 43% (53 requests) were made to Nodeassets.nbcnews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) relates to the external source Nodeassets.nbcnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Leanforward.msnbc.com main page is 2.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 905.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 153.6 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 905.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 700.6 kB
  • After minification 696.9 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. Leanforward MSNBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 58.3 kB

  • Original 335.9 kB
  • After minification 335.9 kB
  • After compression 277.6 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 58.3 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 717.0 kB

  • Original 846.4 kB
  • After minification 844.7 kB
  • After compression 129.4 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. Leanforward.msnbc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 717.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (39%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leanforward MSNBC. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

leanforward.msnbc.com accessibility score

72

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

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

leanforward.msnbc.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

leanforward.msnbc.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Leanforward.msnbc.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 Leanforward.msnbc.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 data is detected on the main page of Leanforward MSNBC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: