Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thestories.net

TheStories - Interesting short stories and news from sports, health, education etc.

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

434 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

740 ms

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About Website

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Interesting short stories and news from sports, health, education etc.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestories.net page load time and found that the first response time was 434 ms and then it took 2.8 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

thestories.net performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thestories.net

434 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

86 ms

styles.css

76 ms

settings.css

81 ms

css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Thestories.net, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ftjcfx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (434 ms) belongs to the original domain Thestories.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (70%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

919.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thestories.net 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 67.1 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 8.1 kB, which is 11% 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 63.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 705.5 kB
  • After minification 630.2 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. Obviously, The Stories needs image optimization as it can save up to 75.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 542.8 kB

  • Original 692.1 kB
  • After minification 515.5 kB
  • After compression 149.2 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 542.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 128.4 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. Thestories.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Stories. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thestories.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thestories.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thestories.net SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thestories.net 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 Thestories.net 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 The Stories. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: