Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

syndication.indianexpress.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

89 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Syndication.indianexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

syndication.indianexpress.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

syndication.indianexpress.com

174 ms

www.indianexpress.com

11 ms

indianexpress.com

28 ms

rtbpam

442 ms

gpt.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 301 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Syndication.indianexpress.com, 32% (95 requests) were made to Images.indianexpress.com and 6% (18 requests) were made to Bh.contextweb.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (587 ms) relates to the external source Px.owneriq.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 886.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Syndication.indianexpress.com main page is 9.3 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. 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. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. 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 1.2 kB or 51% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Syndication Indian Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 848.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 398.7 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 848.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Syndication.indianexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 149 (54%)

Requests Now

274

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 274 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Syndication Indian Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

syndication.indianexpress.com accessibility score

94

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

syndication.indianexpress.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

syndication.indianexpress.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Syndication.indianexpress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Syndication.indianexpress.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Syndication Indian Express. 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: