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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

opinion.wsj.com

WSJ Opinion | Guided by Principle & Grounded in Fact

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

640 ms

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About Website

Visit opinion.wsj.com now to see the best up-to-date Opinion WSJ content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about opinion.wsj.com

WSJ Opinion believes in civil discourse & raising the level of debate We aim to inform our readers & persuade them with sharp rigorously researched and forcefully made arguments

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opinion.wsj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

opinion.wsj.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,490 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.013

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Opinion.wsj.com, 49% (34 requests) were made to Images.dowjones.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Opinion.wsj.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (29%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Opinion.wsj.com main page is 7.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 102.6 kB
  • After minification 93.9 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. 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 82.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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, Opinion WSJ needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 82.6 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 267.0 kB
  • After compression 187.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 82.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 202.3 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 200.0 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. Opinion.wsj.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Opinion WSJ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

opinion.wsj.com accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

opinion.wsj.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

opinion.wsj.com 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 Opinion.wsj.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 Opinion.wsj.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

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