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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

palestinechronicle.com

Home Page - Palestine Chronicle

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Palestinechronicle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

palestinechronicle.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.316

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.palestinechronicle.com

1453 ms

style.css

127 ms

white.css

250 ms

custom.css

131 ms

style.css

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Palestinechronicle.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Palestinechronicle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

816.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Palestinechronicle.com main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 654.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 71.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 654.2 kB
  • After minification 612.5 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. Palestine Chronicle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 454.6 kB

  • Original 627.8 kB
  • After minification 575.5 kB
  • After compression 173.2 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 454.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. Palestinechronicle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (48%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Palestine Chronicle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.palestinechronicle.com

www.palestinechronicle.com

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Accessibility Review

palestinechronicle.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

palestinechronicle.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

palestinechronicle.com SEO score

77

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

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 Palestinechronicle.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 Palestinechronicle.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

palestinechronicle.com

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