Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

archive.thedailystar.net

The Daily Star Archive | Breaking & Latest News from Bangladesh

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

983 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

621 ms

archive.thedailystar.net screenshot

About Website

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The latest & breaking news of Bangladesh from The Daily Star. Ranked no.1 English daily newspaper of Bangladesh, 'thedailystar.net' provides latest daily news 24 hours.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Archive.thedailystar.net page load time and found that the first response time was 983 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

archive.thedailystar.net performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

archive.thedailystar.net

983 ms

www.thedailystar.net

276 ms

css_kShW4RPmRstZ3SpIC-ZvVGNFVAi0WEMuCnI0ZkYIaFw.css

14 ms

css_Vl7GwnZ-ioRDtXMcIRm3IKAaQwNfjR_PQh_SA3WeV90.css

16 ms

css_SrRrFc93W01Wdyvn3tFf44RotRzvCWjkGCQM8yysYa8.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Archive.thedailystar.net, 61% (89 requests) were made to Thedailystar.net and 6% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (983 ms) belongs to the original domain Archive.thedailystar.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 771.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Archive.thedailystar.net main page is 1.8 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. 75% 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 662.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 318.0 kB

  • Original 433.3 kB
  • After minification 433.2 kB
  • After compression 115.3 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 318.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 662.7 kB
  • After minification 645.7 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. Archive The Daily Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 285.6 kB

  • Original 506.4 kB
  • After minification 506.3 kB
  • After compression 220.7 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 285.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 150.3 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 196.0 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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. Archive.thedailystar.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (35%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Archive The Daily Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

archive.thedailystar.net accessibility score

91

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.

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

Best Practices

archive.thedailystar.net best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

archive.thedailystar.net SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Archive.thedailystar.net 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 Archive.thedailystar.net 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 Archive The Daily Star. 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: