Access thecorrespondent.pk. The Correspondent

Report Summary

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,630 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.5 s

0/100

10%

thecorrespondent.pk

429 ms

www.thecorrespondent.pk

1687 ms

cleantalk-public.min.css

287 ms

cleantalk-email-decoder.min.css

294 ms

style.css

293 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Thecorrespondent.pk, 10% (9 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecorrespondent.pk.

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecorrespondent.pk main page is 3.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 420.6 kB

Original 481.0 kB
After minification 465.4 kB
After compression 60.4 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 420.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

Original 849.9 kB
After minification 795.6 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. The Correspondent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

Original 647.5 kB
After minification 647.5 kB
After compression 304.8 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 342.7 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.3 MB
After compression 176.9 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. Thecorrespondent.pk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Correspondent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Thecorrespondent.pk 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 Thecorrespondent.pk 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

thecorrespondent.pk

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

The Correspondent | Breaking news

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)