Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

prothomalo.com

প্রথম আলো | বাংলা নিউজ পেপার

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

64 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prothomalo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prothomalo.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,860 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prothomalo.com

23 ms

prothomalo.com

48 ms

www.prothomalo.com

636 ms

gumlet.min.js

564 ms

gtm.js

562 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Prothomalo.com, 18% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (817 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.4 MB (80%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

880.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Prothomalo.com main page is 4.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 3.4 MB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 MB
  • After compression 473.9 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 3.4 MB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 410.0 kB
  • After minification 410.0 kB
  • After compression 406.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prothomalo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

prothomalo.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

prothomalo.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

prothomalo.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    BN

  • Language Claimed

    BN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Prothomalo.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Bengali/Bangla is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Prothomalo.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 data is detected on the main page of Prothomalo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: