Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

messenger.com.ge

The Messenger - Georgia's English Language Daily

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

440 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

83 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Messenger.com.ge page load time and found that the first response time was 440 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

messenger.com.ge performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

messenger.com.ge

440 ms

styles.css

143 ms

show_ads.js

69 ms

counter.js

4 ms

header.gif

284 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Messenger.com.ge, 23% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 15% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (440 ms) belongs to the original domain Messenger.com.ge.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 138.8 kB (32%)

Content Size

440.5 kB

After Optimization

301.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Messenger.com.ge main page is 440.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 402.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 2.4 kB, which is 19% 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 8.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 22.0 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. Messenger images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 402.6 kB
  • After minification 402.6 kB
  • After compression 275.1 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 127.6 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 793 B

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. Messenger.com.ge needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Messenger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

messenger.com.ge accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

messenger.com.ge 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

messenger.com.ge SEO score

67

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

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 Messenger.com.ge 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 Messenger.com.ge 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 Messenger. 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: