newsweek.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 46 (desktop: 62). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 6.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 4,156 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (confiant-integrations.net, Google Tag Manager and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

68 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (812 KiB).

About 949 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

confiant-integrations.net costs a phone 497 ms of main-thread work and 341 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 295 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 260 ms of main-thread work and 335 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 167 ms of main-thread work and 307 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

7 images could be 148 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 136 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The page becomes fully interactive after 26.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Your largest element takes 5.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Image for article: Democrats Fear Their ‘Blue Wave’ May Hav…”.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your homepage downloads 3.7 MB in 247 requests on a phone: scripts 2.6 MB (88), images 642 KiB (37) and stylesheets 137 KiB (30). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.05 g of CO₂e: 125.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Images must have alternative text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

20 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 91 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

33 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your title is 80 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.”.

Your meta description is 166 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No XML sitemap at https://www.newsweek.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

The homepage links to 594 pages on newsweek.com and 105 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://www.newsweek.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 143 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://di.rlcdn.com/api/segment?pid=468096&pdata=prop%3Dnw_site.

26 of 62 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“The Topics API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.”).

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

Large scripts ship without source maps.

Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,905 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads and Google Analytics and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 34 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 65 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.