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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

reaction.life

Reaction - Independent Journalism in the UK | Commentary & Analysis

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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About Website

Visit reaction.life now to see the best up-to-date Reaction content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about reaction.life

Reaction brings you commentary and analysis on politics, economics, culture and ideas from leading writers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Reaction.life page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

reaction.life performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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327 ms

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436 ms

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Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Reaction.life, 8% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Reaction.life.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Reaction.life main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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. Images take 775.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 187.3 kB

  • Original 215.9 kB
  • After minification 208.0 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 187.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 419 B

  • Original 775.1 kB
  • After minification 774.6 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. Reaction images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 250.2 kB
  • After minification 245.7 kB
  • After compression 152.7 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 97.4 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 124.2 kB
  • After minification 124.2 kB
  • After compression 117.0 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. Reaction.life has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (52%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Reaction. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

reaction.life accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

reaction.life best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

reaction.life SEO score

93

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

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

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