Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ara-network.com

Associated Reporters Abroad (ARA) - professional journalists writing for media outlets worldwide.

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

789 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ara-network.com page load time and found that the first response time was 789 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ara-network.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value56,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value70.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ara-network.com

789 ms

index.php

98 ms

index.php

160 ms

index.php

170 ms

jquery.min.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Ara-network.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (789 ms) belongs to the original domain Ara-network.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

823.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Ara-network.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 677.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 17.3 kB, which is 29% 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 47.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 677.1 kB
  • After minification 634.1 kB

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. ARA Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 290.2 kB

  • Original 468.3 kB
  • After minification 467.4 kB
  • After compression 178.1 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 290.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 951 B
  • After compression 331 B

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. Ara-network.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (42%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARA Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ara-network.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

ara-network.com 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

ara-network.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ara-network.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 Ara-network.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 ARA Network. 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: