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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

citizennews.co.ke

Citizen Digital - Breaking News, Kenya News, Latest News, Citizen TV, 2022 elections, Sports, Entertainment, Exclusive videos, Radio, Podcasts

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizennews.co.ke page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citizennews.co.ke performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.21

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizennews.co.ke

2371 ms

citizen.digital

334 ms

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67 ms

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62 ms

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510 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citizennews.co.ke, 44% (30 requests) were made to Citizen.digital and 12% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Citizennews.co.ke.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 747.2 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

833.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citizennews.co.ke main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 265.8 kB

  • Original 320.3 kB
  • After minification 319.8 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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 265.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 231.7 kB
  • After minification 225.0 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. Citizen News Co images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 474.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 536.9 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 474.6 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Citizennews.co.ke has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (42%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizen News Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

citizennews.co.ke accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

citizennews.co.ke 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citizennews.co.ke SEO score

100

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

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 Citizennews.co.ke 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 Citizennews.co.ke 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

citizennews.co.ke

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