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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

skeptically.org

WEBRINGS--the directory to over 1000 articles by California Skeptics

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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

An encyclopedia of the best articles on all facets of religion, on politics, spiritualism, utilitarianism, logic, quackery, ethics, health, medicine, spiritualism, and Jeremy Bentham

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skeptically.org page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skeptically.org performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skeptically.org

112 ms

www.skeptically.org

212 ms

cse.js

8 ms

ifr

347 ms

photoalbumteal_mt_bg.gif

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Skeptically.org, 12% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Tripod.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Skeptically.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 422.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skeptically.org main page is 2.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 162.1 kB
  • After minification 126.9 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 35.2 kB, which is 22% 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 144.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 241.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Skeptically needs image optimization as it can save up to 241.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 165.6 kB
  • After compression 164.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Skeptically.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skeptically. 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

skeptically.org

skeptically.org

112 ms

www.skeptically.org

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212 ms

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Accessibility Review

skeptically.org accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

skeptically.org best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

skeptically.org SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Skeptically.org 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 Skeptically.org 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

skeptically.org

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