Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

deccanchronicle.com

Deccan Chronicle - News Headlines | Today Headlines | Hyderabad News | English News | Top Stories | Breaking news

Page Load Speed

106.8 sec in total

First Response

855 ms

Resources Loaded

70.9 sec

Page Rendered

35 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deccanchronicle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 855 ms and then it took 105.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

deccanchronicle.com performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value2.698

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deccanchronicle.com

855 ms

www.deccanchronicle.com

1997 ms

normalize.css

2002 ms

bootstrap.min.css

99 ms

font-awesome.min.css

1006 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Deccanchronicle.com, 13% (17 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com and 9% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.3 sec) relates to the external source C.algovid.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (49%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Deccanchronicle.com main page is 6.6 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. 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. Javascripts take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 212.2 kB

  • Original 257.3 kB
  • After minification 227.5 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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 29.8 kB, which is 12% 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 212.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Deccan Chronicle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 2.5 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 472.0 kB

  • Original 574.6 kB
  • After minification 533.5 kB
  • After compression 102.6 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. Deccanchronicle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 472.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (75%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Deccan Chronicle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

deccanchronicle.com accessibility score

81

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

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

deccanchronicle.com best practices score

42

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

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

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

deccanchronicle.com SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Deccanchronicle.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 Deccanchronicle.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 description is not detected on the main page of Deccan Chronicle. 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: