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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

voaswahili.com

VOA Swahili – Sauti ya Amerika

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

631 ms

voaswahili.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voaswahili.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voaswahili.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.voaswahili.com

1922 ms

VOA-sw.css

240 ms

utag.sync.js

27 ms

iframe_api

50 ms

infographics.b

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Voaswahili.com, 19% (11 requests) were made to Gdb.voanews.com and 19% (11 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Voaswahili.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

524.2 kB

After Optimization

380.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Voaswahili.com main page is 524.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 179.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 127.0 kB

  • Original 148.9 kB
  • After minification 148.7 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 127.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 704 B

  • Original 179.2 kB
  • After minification 178.5 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 Swahili images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 146.6 kB
  • After minification 146.1 kB
  • After compression 130.5 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 16.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 181 B

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. Voaswahili.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (67%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VOA Swahili. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.voaswahili.com

www.voaswahili.com

1922 ms

VOA-sw.css

VOA-sw.css

240 ms

utag.sync.js

utag.sync.js

27 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

50 ms

infographics.b

infographics.b

213 ms

loader.b

loader.b

40 ms

serviceWorkerInstall.js

serviceWorkerInstall.js

43 ms

conf.js

conf.js

49 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

80 ms

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645 ms

logo-compact.svg

logo-compact.svg

229 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

231 ms

logo-print.gif

logo-print.gif

70 ms

logo-print_color.png

logo-print_color.png

70 ms

player-spinner.png

player-spinner.png

69 ms

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912 ms

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828 ms

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1034 ms

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882 ms

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857 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

68 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

231 ms

utag.js

utag.js

69 ms

image-placeholder.svg

image-placeholder.svg

320 ms

utag.v.js

utag.v.js

79 ms

Skolar-Lt_Latin_v2.woff

Skolar-Lt_Latin_v2.woff

108 ms

SkolarSans-Cn-Bd_LatnCyrl_v2.3.woff

SkolarSans-Cn-Bd_LatnCyrl_v2.3.woff

108 ms

icons-font-1715956494242.woff

icons-font-1715956494242.woff

108 ms

utag.24.js

utag.24.js

90 ms

utag.4.js

utag.4.js

118 ms

utag.7.js

utag.7.js

211 ms

utag.20.js

utag.20.js

211 ms

utag.73.js

utag.73.js

210 ms

utag.74.js

utag.74.js

168 ms

utag.75.js

utag.75.js

209 ms

res

res

111 ms

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1019 ms

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626 ms

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1174 ms

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1126 ms

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1060 ms

rd

rd

148 ms

hljson

hljson

223 ms

items

items

306 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

119 ms

id

id

155 ms

chartbeat_video.js

chartbeat_video.js

47 ms

quant.js

quant.js

102 ms

3540.js

3540.js

149 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

105 ms

utag.v.js

utag.v.js

43 ms

mab

mab

99 ms

ping

ping

96 ms

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ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZmpezgAAAMcKfQNw

52 ms

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rules-p-BgErSP_RLcMf_.js

56 ms

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114 ms

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47 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

voaswahili.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

voaswahili.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

voaswahili.com SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    SW

  • Language Claimed

    SW

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Voaswahili.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Swahili is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Voaswahili.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

voaswahili.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of VOA Swahili. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: