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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

prwatch.org

PR Watch | Reporting on spin and disinformation since 1993.

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

Visit prwatch.org now to see the best up-to-date PR Watch content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about prwatch.org

Investigating the PR industry and politics, CMD's PRWatch reports on ALEC, the Koch brothers, Scott Walker, education, the environment, and other social issues.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prwatch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prwatch.org performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.193

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prwatch.org

170 ms

www.prwatch.org

247 ms

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93 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Prwatch.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 746.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

986.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Prwatch.org main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 763.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 85.2 kB

  • Original 102.8 kB
  • After minification 98.6 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 85.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 763.9 kB
  • After minification 746.3 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. PR Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 321.5 kB

  • Original 473.0 kB
  • After minification 416.7 kB
  • After compression 151.5 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 321.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 321.6 kB

  • Original 392.7 kB
  • After minification 390.1 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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. Prwatch.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 321.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (43%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PR Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

prwatch.org

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170 ms

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247 ms

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14 ms

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Accessibility Review

prwatch.org accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

prwatch.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

prwatch.org SEO score

73

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 Prwatch.org 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 Prwatch.org 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

prwatch.org

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