Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

natgeo.ro

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Page Load Speed

24.8 sec in total

First Response

395 ms

Resources Loaded

24.1 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Natgeo.ro page load time and found that the first response time was 395 ms and then it took 24.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

natgeo.ro performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.359

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

natgeo.ro

395 ms

www.natgeo.ro

1847 ms

style.css

65 ms

fbar.css

70 ms

phocagallery_module_image.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Natgeo.ro, 13% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (10 requests) were made to Digital4adro.hit.gemius.pl. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Admonitoring.bsgroup.ro.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

700.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Natgeo.ro main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 557.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.2 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 98.6 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 83.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 557.4 kB
  • After minification 512.7 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. Natgeo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 309.0 kB

  • Original 462.4 kB
  • After minification 460.0 kB
  • After compression 153.4 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 309.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Natgeo.ro needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (57%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natgeo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

natgeo.ro accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

natgeo.ro 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

natgeo.ro SEO score

84

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

    RO

  • Language Claimed

    RO

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Natgeo.ro can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Romanian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Natgeo.ro 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 Natgeo. 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: