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more.gulfnews.com

Gulf News

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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About Website

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Latest news and analysis from the worlds of business, politics, sport, lifestyle and culture from Gulf News, the Middle East's biggest selling English newspaper, and largest online news site.

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Key Findings

We analyzed More.gulfnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

more.gulfnews.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

store.gulfnews.com

1560 ms

calendar-blue.css

246 ms

jqtransform.css

243 ms

styles.css

627 ms

widgets.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original More.gulfnews.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to S.effectivemeasure.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Store.gulfnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 778.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of More.gulfnews.com main page is 2.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 70.4 kB

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 20.9 kB, which is 26% 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 70.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. More Gulf News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 516.0 kB

  • Original 689.8 kB
  • After minification 523.2 kB
  • After compression 173.7 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 516.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 141.6 kB

  • Original 174.2 kB
  • After minification 145.1 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. More.gulfnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (50%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of More Gulf News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

more.gulfnews.com SEO score

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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 More.gulfnews.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 More.gulfnews.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 More Gulf News. 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: