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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

sc-news.net

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Page Load Speed

519 ms in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

291 ms

Page Rendered

171 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sc-news.net page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 462 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sc-news.net performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sc-news.net

57 ms

www.sc-news.net

61 ms

sc.css

8 ms

sw.js

64 ms

ga.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Sc-news.net, 71% (12 requests) were made to Sciway.net and 6% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (64 ms) relates to the external source Sciway.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.1 kB (30%)

Content Size

46.3 kB

After Optimization

32.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sc-news.net main page is 46.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 23.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 9.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.6 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. SC News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 4.2 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 349 B

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Sc-news.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SC News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sc-news.net

sc-news.net

57 ms

www.sc-news.net

www.sc-news.net

61 ms

sc.css

sc.css

8 ms

sw.js

sw.js

64 ms

ga.js

ga.js

38 ms

sc-logo.gif

sc-logo.gif

4 ms

sc-jobs.gif

sc-jobs.gif

14 ms

sc-real-estate.gif

sc-real-estate.gif

15 ms

sc-hotels.gif

sc-hotels.gif

24 ms

sc-entertainment.gif

sc-entertainment.gif

15 ms

sc-businesses.gif

sc-businesses.gif

23 ms

go.gif

go.gif

25 ms

ra11.gif

ra11.gif

24 ms

gplus-icon.png

gplus-icon.png

29 ms

fb.png

fb.png

30 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

29 ms

FranklinGothic-MedCd-webfont.woff

FranklinGothic-MedCd-webfont.woff

14 ms

Accessibility Review

sc-news.net accessibility score

66

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sc-news.net best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

sc-news.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sc-news.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sc-news.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

sc-news.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SC News. 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: