Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

thenewhumanitarian.org

The New Humanitarian • humanitarian news and analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East - updated daily

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

281 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom reporting from the heart of conflicts, disasters, and other crises.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenewhumanitarian.org page load time and found that the first response time was 281 ms and then it took 3.6 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

thenewhumanitarian.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thenewhumanitarian.org

281 ms

thenewhumanitarian.org

350 ms

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

80 ms

lfxmgueS-CrD7nYRA2dpMpeb7gw.js

32 ms

google_tag.script.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Thenewhumanitarian.org, 76% (77 requests) were made to Assets.thenewhumanitarian.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Tracking.thenewhumanitarian.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (716 ms) relates to the external source Assets.thenewhumanitarian.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thenewhumanitarian.org 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 896.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 361.4 kB

  • Original 461.1 kB
  • After minification 461.1 kB
  • After compression 99.7 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 361.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 939 B

  • Original 896.3 kB
  • After minification 895.4 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 New Humanitarian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 551 B

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 82.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 372 B

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Thenewhumanitarian.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (65%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The New Humanitarian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thenewhumanitarian.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thenewhumanitarian.org 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

thenewhumanitarian.org SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Thenewhumanitarian.org 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 Thenewhumanitarian.org 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 The New Humanitarian. 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: