Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thenewyorktimes.com

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

562 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenewyorktimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thenewyorktimes.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thenewyorktimes.com

36 ms

www.nytimes.com

38 ms

styles.css

203 ms

3338050995.js

189 ms

framework.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thenewyorktimes.com, 56% (60 requests) were made to Static01.nyt.com and 14% (15 requests) were made to Typeface.nyt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (385 ms) relates to the external source Static01.nyt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thenewyorktimes.com main page is 3.0 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. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 160.3 kB

  • Original 193.6 kB
  • After minification 152.3 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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 41.3 kB, which is 21% 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 160.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 774.6 kB
  • After minification 748.4 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. The New York Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 418.0 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 1.1 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 343.2 kB

  • Original 420.8 kB
  • After minification 420.0 kB
  • After compression 77.6 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. Thenewyorktimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 343.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (15%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

78

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The New York Times. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thenewyorktimes.com accessibility score

95

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

thenewyorktimes.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

thenewyorktimes.com SEO score

98

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thenewyorktimes.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 Thenewyorktimes.com 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

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