Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

voanewsfarsi.com

صدای آمریکا | VOA Farsi

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

446 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

709 ms

voanewsfarsi.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing VOA News Farsi content for Iran. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about voanewsfarsi.com

صدای آمریکا، رسانه بین‌المللی ایالات متحده، بازتاب‌دهنده اخبار و سیاست‌های آمریکا و رویداد‌های ایران و جهان به زبان فارسی

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voanewsfarsi.com page load time and found that the first response time was 446 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voanewsfarsi.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ir.voanews.com

446 ms

VOA-fa-IR.css

20 ms

utag.sync.js

40 ms

iframe_api

206 ms

infographics.b

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Voanewsfarsi.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Tags.voanews.com and 13% (7 requests) were made to Gdb.voanews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (493 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.8 kB (51%)

Content Size

852.5 kB

After Optimization

420.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Voanewsfarsi.com main page is 852.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 297.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 166.4 kB

  • Original 195.2 kB
  • After minification 194.9 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 166.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 654 B

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 214.7 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. VOA News Farsi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 128.4 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 16.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 248.6 kB

  • Original 297.5 kB
  • After minification 296.3 kB
  • After compression 48.9 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. Voanewsfarsi.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 248.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (76%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VOA News Farsi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

voanewsfarsi.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

voanewsfarsi.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

voanewsfarsi.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FA

  • Language Claimed

    FA

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Voanewsfarsi.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Persian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Voanewsfarsi.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 VOA News Farsi. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: