Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

virakesari.lk

Home | Virakesari

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

918 ms

virakesari.lk screenshot

About Website

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Virakesari.lk | 24X7 Leading Tamil News website in Sri Lanka delivers Local, Political, World, Sports, Technology, Health and Cinema.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virakesari.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virakesari.lk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.292

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.virakesari.lk

22 ms

css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

droidsanstamil.css

34 ms

all.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 298 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Virakesari.lk, 12% (37 requests) were made to Cdn.virakesari.lk and 6% (18 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.7 sec) relates to the external source Bestpromoslk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.7 MB (17%)

Content Size

27.0 MB

After Optimization

22.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Virakesari.lk main page is 27.0 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. 85% 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 23.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 530.1 kB

  • Original 619.1 kB
  • After minification 565.0 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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 530.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 23.5 MB
  • After minification 21.6 MB

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. Virakesari images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 552.6 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 1.7 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 551.7 kB

  • Original 651.5 kB
  • After minification 601.2 kB
  • After compression 99.9 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. Virakesari.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 551.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 136 (52%)

Requests Now

264

After Optimization

128

The browser has sent 264 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virakesari. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virakesari.lk accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

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

virakesari.lk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

virakesari.lk SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    TA

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virakesari.lk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Tamil is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Virakesari.lk 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 Virakesari. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: