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nytimes.com

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Page Load Speed

131.8 sec in total

First Response

514 ms

Resources Loaded

117.6 sec

Page Rendered

13.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nytimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 514 ms and then it took 131.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 13 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.nytimes.com

514 ms

zam5nzz.css

1025 ms

styles.css

1194 ms

home_prod.js

1150 ms

framework.js

6793 ms

Our browser made a total of 328 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Nytimes.com, 30% (98 requests) were made to Static01.nyt.com and 6% (21 requests) were made to A1.nyt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (21.1 sec) relates to the external source Dt.adsafeprotected.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.4 MB (55%)

Content Size

11.7 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Nytimes.com main page is 11.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 6.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 345.3 kB

  • Original 419.0 kB
  • After minification 367.2 kB
  • After compression 73.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 51.7 kB, which is 12% 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 345.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Ny Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 4.6 MB

  • Original 6.6 MB
  • After minification 6.4 MB
  • After compression 2.0 MB

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 4.6 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 269.7 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. Nytimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 154 (54%)

Requests Now

287

After Optimization

133

The browser has sent 287 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ny 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 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Nytimes.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 Nytimes.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 Ny Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: