Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ghanaway.com

Ghana Way – Making sense of the news

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

925 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ghanaway.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 7.7 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

ghanaway.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ghanaway.com

207 ms

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222 ms

shareaholic.js

9 ms

css

28 ms

M9bPKixNLarUMYYydHMz04sSS1L1cjPzAA.js

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 238 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ghanaway.com, 14% (33 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 13% (32 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ghanaway.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (41%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Ghanaway.com main page is 4.6 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 383.0 kB

  • Original 427.2 kB
  • After minification 415.7 kB
  • After compression 44.3 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 383.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Ghana Way images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 494.2 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 1.0 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 431.7 kB

  • Original 549.4 kB
  • After minification 547.5 kB
  • After compression 117.7 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. Ghanaway.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 431.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (41%)

Requests Now

223

After Optimization

131

The browser has sent 223 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ghana Way. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ghanaway.com accessibility score

89

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

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

ghanaway.com best practices score

67

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

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

SEO Factors

ghanaway.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ghanaway.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ghanaway.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 Ghana Way. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: