Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

428 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizenaffairs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 4.2 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

citizenaffairs.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizenaffairs.com

151 ms

mowaten.gov.iq

1349 ms

stmenu.js

128 ms

styles1.css

135 ms

menue.js

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citizenaffairs.com, 60% (53 requests) were made to Mowaten.gov.iq and 23% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Mowaten.gov.iq.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

915.2 kB

After Optimization

706.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Citizenaffairs.com main page is 915.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 642.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 6.5 kB, which is 19% 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 30.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 642.4 kB
  • After minification 625.2 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. Citizenaffairs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 143.4 kB

  • Original 214.9 kB
  • After minification 213.5 kB
  • After compression 71.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 143.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Citizenaffairs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (48%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizenaffairs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citizenaffairs.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

citizenaffairs.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citizenaffairs.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1256

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citizenaffairs.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Citizenaffairs.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1256. 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 description is not detected on the main page of Citizenaffairs. 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: