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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

direct.newsfirst.lk

Home - Delivering Exchange – Traded Funds (ETFs) to Investors through Advisors

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

679 ms

direct.newsfirst.lk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Direct Newsfirst content for Sri Lanka. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about direct.newsfirst.lk

Latest Sri Lanka news updates and breaking news in English, Sinhala and Tamil on Newsfirst, Sri Lanka's No.01 news provider for local, business, political and sports news. Official Site.

Visit direct.newsfirst.lk

Key Findings

We analyzed Direct.newsfirst.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

direct.newsfirst.lk performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

direct.newsfirst.lk

21 ms

index.php

4276 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

36 ms

polls-css.css

28 ms

wpProQuiz_front.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 219 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Direct.newsfirst.lk, 68% (150 requests) were made to Newsfirst.lk and 3% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Direct.newsfirst.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (43%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Direct.newsfirst.lk main page is 3.2 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 142.4 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 28.8 kB, which is 20% 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 122.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 201.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Direct Newsfirst needs image optimization as it can save up to 201.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 497.6 kB

  • Original 814.4 kB
  • After minification 765.2 kB
  • After compression 316.8 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 497.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 550.4 kB

  • Original 644.9 kB
  • After minification 588.1 kB
  • After compression 94.5 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. Direct.newsfirst.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 550.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (40%)

Requests Now

213

After Optimization

127

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 213 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Newsfirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

direct.newsfirst.lk accessibility score

90

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.

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

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

direct.newsfirst.lk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

direct.newsfirst.lk SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Direct.newsfirst.lk 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 Direct.newsfirst.lk 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

direct.newsfirst.lk

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