Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

alarabiya.com

Al Arabiya Jobs - Access the Hidden Gulf Job Market - Al Arabiya

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

341 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alarabiya.com page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alarabiya.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alarabiya.com

245 ms

www.alarabiya.com

3132 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

349 ms

styles.css

204 ms

bootstrap.css

602 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Alarabiya.com, 7% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Alarabiya.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (33%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Alarabiya.com main page is 3.1 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. 75% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 187.4 kB

  • Original 202.8 kB
  • After minification 120.0 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 82.8 kB, which is 41% 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 187.4 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Al Arabiya images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 325.0 kB

  • Original 473.2 kB
  • After minification 443.8 kB
  • After compression 148.2 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 325.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 413.0 kB

  • Original 487.8 kB
  • After minification 439.3 kB
  • After compression 74.8 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. Alarabiya.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 413.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (24%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Al Arabiya. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alarabiya.com accessibility score

76

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

alarabiya.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alarabiya.com SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Alarabiya.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 Alarabiya.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Al Arabiya. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: