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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kuwaittimes.net

Kuwait Times Newspaper - The Leading Independent Daily Kuwait News

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

784 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Visit kuwaittimes.net now to see the best up-to-date Kuwait Times content for Kuwait and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kuwaittimes.net

Kuwait news and analysis and around the world at KuwaitTimes.com. Politics, Business, Sports, Lifestyle, and in-depth reporting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kuwaittimes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kuwaittimes.net performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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167 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kuwaittimes.net, 60% (47 requests) were made to Cdn4.premiumread.com and 37% (29 requests) were made to Kuwaittimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (360 ms) relates to the external source Cdn4.premiumread.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 289.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

807.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Kuwaittimes.net main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 776.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 259.4 kB

  • Original 320.3 kB
  • After minification 288.5 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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 259.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 29.6 kB

  • Original 776.5 kB
  • After minification 746.9 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. Kuwait Times images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (77%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kuwait Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kuwaittimes.net accessibility score

83

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kuwaittimes.net best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kuwaittimes.net SEO score

92

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

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 Kuwaittimes.net 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 Kuwaittimes.net 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Kuwait Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: