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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

malawitimes.com

Malawi Times

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

304 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Malawitimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 304 ms and then it took 4.3 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

malawitimes.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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304 ms

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189 ms

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193 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Malawitimes.com, 30% (24 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Malawitimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 876.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Malawitimes.com main page is 2.3 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. 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 903.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 486.0 kB

  • Original 575.4 kB
  • After minification 504.7 kB
  • After compression 89.4 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 70.7 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 486.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 903.8 kB
  • After minification 869.7 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. Malawi Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 355.1 kB

  • Original 702.6 kB
  • After minification 700.5 kB
  • After compression 347.5 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 355.1 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 789 B

  • Original 94.6 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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. Malawitimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (20%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Malawi Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

malawitimes.com accessibility score

62

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

malawitimes.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

malawitimes.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Malawitimes.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 Malawitimes.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

malawitimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Malawi Times. 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: