Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

explore.lk

Explore Sri Lanka | The web edition of Explore Sri Lanka Magazine

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

explore.lk screenshot

About Website

Visit explore.lk now to see the best up-to-date Explore content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about explore.lk

Explore Sri Lanka that began in 1987, celebrates 35 years of offering readers articles on travel destinations, off-the-beaten-track, retreats and getaways, serendipitous discoveries, cultural events, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explore.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 4.1 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

explore.lk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.122

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

explore.lk

1840 ms

style.css

341 ms

jquery-1.3.1.min.js

587 ms

common.js

462 ms

swfobject.js

401 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Explore.lk, 67% (50 requests) were made to Exploresrilanka.lk and 13% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Explore.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Explore.lk main page is 2.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 39.2 kB, which is 51% 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 67.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Explore images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 173.9 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 258.5 kB
  • After compression 96.2 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 173.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Explore.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (43%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

explore.lk accessibility score

68

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

Best Practices

explore.lk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

explore.lk SEO score

46

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

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 Explore.lk 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 Explore.lk 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 Explore. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: