Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

seekingalpha.com

Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

722 ms

Page Rendered

2 sec

seekingalpha.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seekingalpha.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

seekingalpha.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seekingalpha.com

127 ms

Footer-W.8b34cd02.css

39 ms

ExpandedFooter-W.2bd52e0f.css

42 ms

6960.5c5dba4c.css

56 ms

Home-S.848b74d1.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Seekingalpha.com, 34% (32 requests) were made to Static.seekingalpha.com and 27% (26 requests) were made to Static1.seekingalpha.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) relates to the external source Static3.seekingalpha.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (74%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

392.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Seekingalpha.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 207.9 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 1.1 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 177.7 kB
  • After minification 175.9 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. Seeking Alpha images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Seekingalpha.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (10%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Seeking Alpha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

seekingalpha.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

seekingalpha.com best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

seekingalpha.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Seekingalpha.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 Seekingalpha.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: