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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

thestory.com

Homepage - TheStory.com

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

605 ms

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 784 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thestory.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestory.com

368 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

8 ms

styles.css

10 ms

style.css

27 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Thestory.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) belongs to the original domain Thestory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

796.3 kB

After Optimization

716.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thestory.com main page is 796.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 679.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 79.3 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 98.0 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. 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 79.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 835 B

  • Original 679.8 kB
  • After minification 679.0 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 Story images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Story. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thestory.com

thestory.com

368 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

8 ms

styles.css

styles.css

10 ms

style.css

style.css

27 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

11 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

13 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

14 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

80 ms

ga.js

ga.js

139 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

125 ms

header-bevel.png

header-bevel.png

124 ms

header-gradient.png

header-gradient.png

125 ms

logo1.png

logo1.png

125 ms

resourcelibrary.svg

resourcelibrary.svg

135 ms

social_sprite_sheet.svg

social_sprite_sheet.svg

125 ms

user-area-anchors.svg

user-area-anchors.svg

128 ms

navigation-bg-new11.png

navigation-bg-new11.png

129 ms

search-magnify.png

search-magnify.png

130 ms

main-stripes.png

main-stripes.png

130 ms

header-divider.png

header-divider.png

131 ms

slideshow1.jpg

slideshow1.jpg

132 ms

slideshow2.jpg

slideshow2.jpg

133 ms

slideshow3.jpg

slideshow3.jpg

133 ms

The-Story-Web-Banner_final.jpg

The-Story-Web-Banner_final.jpg

136 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

130 ms

footer-dotted.png

footer-dotted.png

134 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

135 ms

styles.css

styles.css

52 ms

style.css

style.css

57 ms

navigation-bg.png

navigation-bg.png

54 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

39 ms

Accessibility Review

thestory.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

thestory.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thestory.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thestory.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 Thestory.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

thestory.com

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