Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rediff.co.in

Rediff.com: News | Rediffmail | Stock Quotes | Shopping

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

898 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

576 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rediff.co.in page load time and found that the first response time was 898 ms and then it took 7.9 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

rediff.co.in performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,500 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.374

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rediff.co.in

898 ms

www.rediff.com

23 ms

home_tile_us_20.css

1419 ms

sns_us_hm_5.js

1430 ms

realmedia_banner_1_7.js

1742 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rediff.co.in, 28% (13 requests) were made to Im.rediff.com and 24% (11 requests) were made to Imshopping.rediff.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Money.rediff.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

700.8 kB

After Optimization

403.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rediff.co.in main page is 700.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 315.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 212.6 kB

  • Original 246.3 kB
  • After minification 244.4 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 212.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 315.9 kB
  • After minification 306.8 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. Rediff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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 50.8 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 32.6 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Rediff.co.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (16%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rediff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rediff.co.in 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.

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

rediff.co.in 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rediff.co.in SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Rediff.co.in 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 Rediff.co.in 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

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