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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

eastafricanews.com

East Africa News

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastafricanews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 4 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

eastafricanews.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eastafricanews.com

261 ms

eastafricanews.com

413 ms

East_africa_news

1404 ms

f10fd2cbad84386e125817a309cd00.js

259 ms

561e4cc9554755b1f21853e2be9e47.css

203 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Eastafricanews.com, 14% (10 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Wn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 722.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eastafricanews.com main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 973.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 340.6 kB

  • Original 409.2 kB
  • After minification 368.5 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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 340.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 466.1 kB
  • After minification 428.7 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. East Africa News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 343.3 kB

  • Original 973.4 kB
  • After minification 971.3 kB
  • After compression 630.1 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 343.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 823 B

  • Original 97.8 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 97.0 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. Eastafricanews.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (48%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East Africa News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

eastafricanews.com accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

eastafricanews.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

eastafricanews.com SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Eastafricanews.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 Eastafricanews.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 East Africa News. 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: