Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

solomontimes.com

Solomon Island News - Be the First to Know, Participate. Economy, Politics, Sports, Entertainment and Regional. - Solomon Times Online

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

515 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solomontimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 515 ms 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

solomontimes.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.476

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solomontimes.com

515 ms

www.solomontimes.com

2027 ms

sto.min.css

461 ms

ga.js

36 ms

21.gif

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Solomontimes.com, 21% (7 requests) were made to Css.cdn.solomon-times.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to News.cdn.solomon-times.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Solomontimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

130.6 kB

After Optimization

84.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Solomontimes.com main page is 130.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 44.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 32.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 42.2 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. Solomon Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Solomontimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (27%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solomon 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

solomontimes.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

solomontimes.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

SEO Factors

solomontimes.com SEO score

100

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

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 Solomontimes.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 Solomontimes.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

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