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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

colombogazette.com

Colombo Gazette - Sri Lanka's leading news website

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

3.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Colombo Gazette content for Sri Lanka. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about colombogazette.com

Sri Lanka's leading online news source giving readers the latest news from Sri Lanka as well as in-depth articles, opinions, videos, entertainment and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colombogazette.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.2 sec and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

colombogazette.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.492

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

colombogazette.com

3192 ms

js

16 ms

dashicons.min.css

319 ms

frontend.min.css

167 ms

style.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Colombogazette.com, 13% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Colombogazette.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Colombogazette.com main page is 2.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 395.2 kB

  • Original 461.3 kB
  • After minification 461.1 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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 395.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 88 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Colombo Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 656.6 kB
  • After minification 655.8 kB
  • After compression 650.6 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.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 204.6 kB
  • After minification 204.6 kB
  • After compression 198.7 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. Colombogazette.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (75%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colombo Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

colombogazette.com

colombogazette.com

3192 ms

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js

16 ms

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319 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

167 ms

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style.css

172 ms

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37 ms

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180 ms

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173 ms

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665 ms

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323 ms

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326 ms

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340 ms

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330 ms

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51 ms

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100 ms

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121 ms

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351 ms

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346 ms

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505 ms

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677 ms

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675 ms

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tdToTop.js

505 ms

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524 ms

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681 ms

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681 ms

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681 ms

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805 ms

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338 ms

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105 ms

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ads

751 ms

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ads

672 ms

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main.js

64 ms

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player_api

94 ms

ads

ads

504 ms

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6 ms

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92 ms

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8 ms

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34 ms

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64 ms

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Create

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195 ms

Accessibility Review

colombogazette.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

colombogazette.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

colombogazette.com SEO score

76

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Colombogazette.com 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 Colombogazette.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

colombogazette.com

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