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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

khaleejtimes.com

Khaleej Times - Dubai News, UAE News, Gulf, News, Latest news, Arab news, Gulf News, Dubai Labour News

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

463 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

607 ms

About Website

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Khaleej Times provides complete UAE news and international news coverage and online utilities like Dubai Gold Price, Dubai Draft Rate, UAE Exchange Rate, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Khaleejtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 463 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

khaleejtimes.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value36,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value70.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

khaleejtimes.com

463 ms

adyoulike.omnitagjs.com

15 ms

bootstrap.min.css

289 ms

style.css

299 ms

style_business.css

308 ms

Our browser made a total of 375 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (294 requests) were addressed to the original Khaleejtimes.com, 6% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (10 requests) were made to Adserver.adtech.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (938 ms) belongs to the original domain Khaleejtimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (25%)

Content Size

11.1 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Khaleejtimes.com main page is 11.1 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 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 387.4 kB

  • Original 435.1 kB
  • After minification 339.9 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 95.2 kB, which is 22% 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 387.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 508.9 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.8 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. Khaleej Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 384.7 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 1.2 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 682.6 kB

  • Original 793.6 kB
  • After minification 644.7 kB
  • After compression 110.9 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. Khaleejtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 682.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (25%)

Requests Now

349

After Optimization

261

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 349 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Khaleej Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

khaleejtimes.com accessibility score

57

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

khaleejtimes.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

khaleejtimes.com SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Khaleejtimes.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 Khaleejtimes.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Khaleej Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: