Report Summary

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bahrainnews.net

Bahrain News | www.bahrainnews.net | The latest from Bahrain

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

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About Website

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Authoritative Bahrain news site providing coverage of the capital Manama, and other areas of the kingdom. Connects to Bahrain newspapers including the Bahrain Tribune and Gulf Daily News, and official...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bahrainnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bahrainnews.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bahrainnews.net

182 ms

www.bahrainnews.net

363 ms

foundation.min.css

42 ms

blue_style.css

47 ms

font-awesome.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Bahrainnews.net, 14% (27 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net and 10% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (521 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 834.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Bahrainnews.net main page is 2.3 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.5 kB

  • Original 172.1 kB
  • After minification 163.6 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 144.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Bahrain News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 554.9 kB

  • Original 869.7 kB
  • After minification 865.8 kB
  • After compression 314.9 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 554.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 113.6 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 142.4 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. Bahrainnews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (59%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

71

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bahrain 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 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Bahrainnews.net 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 Bahrainnews.net 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 Bahrain 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: