Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

mtv.com.lb

Homepage - MTV Lebanon

Page Load Speed

89.5 sec in total

First Response

961 ms

Resources Loaded

71.9 sec

Page Rendered

16.6 sec

mtv.com.lb screenshot

About Website

Welcome to mtv.com.lb homepage info - get ready to check MTV best content for Lebanon right away, or after learning these important things about mtv.com.lb

MTV is a leading independent media station in Lebanon and the Arab world. We provide round the clock news coverage, in-house production programs and the first free online video on demand service

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mtv.com.lb page load time and found that the first response time was 961 ms and then it took 88.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 7 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

mtv.com.lb performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.416

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mtv.com.lb

961 ms

jquery.smartbanner.css

557 ms

normalize.css

1362 ms

animate.css

1360 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

663 ms

Our browser made a total of 260 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Mtv.com.lb, 59% (154 requests) were made to Plus.mtv.com.lb and 3% (7 requests) were made to Bcp.crwdcntrl.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (27 sec) relates to the external source D3o18bnwgudu6h.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (33%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Mtv.com.lb main page is 5.2 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. 85% 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 421.9 kB

  • Original 499.5 kB
  • After minification 499.1 kB
  • After compression 77.5 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 421.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. MTV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 488.8 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 1.0 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 277.5 kB

  • Original 331.5 kB
  • After minification 324.7 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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. Mtv.com.lb needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 277.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (29%)

Requests Now

247

After Optimization

176

The browser has sent 247 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MTV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mtv.com.lb accessibility score

84

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

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

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

mtv.com.lb 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

mtv.com.lb SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mtv.com.lb can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Mtv.com.lb 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 MTV. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: