Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

expatsmuscat.com

Oman Expats Guide, News, Jobs, Discussion Forum - ExpatsMuscat

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expatsmuscat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expatsmuscat.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value39,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value56.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expatsmuscat.com

73 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

696 ms

1501647682index.css

694 ms

1501657654index.css

696 ms

1504270681index.css

699 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Expatsmuscat.com, 16% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 15% (14 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Expatsmuscat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (76%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Expatsmuscat.com main page is 4.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 103.7 kB
  • After minification 90.9 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 12.8 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 85.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 472 B

  • Original 152.3 kB
  • After minification 151.8 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. Expats Muscat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 605.1 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 1.2 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 246.8 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. Expatsmuscat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (60%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expats Muscat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

expatsmuscat.com accessibility score

86

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

expatsmuscat.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

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

expatsmuscat.com SEO score

93

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

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 Expatsmuscat.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 Expatsmuscat.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 Expats Muscat. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: