Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

catchnews.com

Catch News: English News Paper India, Latest Breaking News Headlines, Today's News Headlines

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

481 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

874 ms

catchnews.com screenshot

About Website

Visit catchnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Catch News content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about catchnews.com

Catch News is a Daily English news website for breaking news headlines & current Stories from India about Indian Politics, Culture, Business, Technology, Sports, entertainment, videos, photos.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catchnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 481 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catchnews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

catchnews.com

481 ms

www.catchnews.com

903 ms

bootstrap.css

68 ms

stylesheet.css

441 ms

catch.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Catchnews.com, 37% (50 requests) were made to Images.catchnews.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Catchnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 954.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Catchnews.com main page is 3.2 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. 80% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 339.2 kB

  • Original 427.2 kB
  • After minification 411.8 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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 339.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Catch News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 381.2 kB

  • Original 586.5 kB
  • After minification 578.1 kB
  • After compression 205.3 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 381.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. Catchnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (53%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catch 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 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

catchnews.com accessibility score

66

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

catchnews.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

catchnews.com SEO score

84

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Catchnews.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Catchnews.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 Catch News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: