Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

alyaum.com

أخبار السعودية |أخبار عاجلة الوطن العربي - صحيفة اليوم السعودية

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

518 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alyaum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alyaum.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alyaum.com

158 ms

www.alyaum.com

594 ms

reset.css

161 ms

main-stylesheet.css

163 ms

lightbox.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Alyaum.com, 33% (35 requests) were made to S.salyaum.com and 31% (33 requests) were made to M.salyaum.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (732 ms) relates to the external source S2.alyaum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (42%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Alyaum.com main page is 4.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 160.9 kB

  • Original 205.6 kB
  • After minification 179.6 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.0 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 160.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Alyaum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 878.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 428.6 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 878.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 723.3 kB

  • Original 958.0 kB
  • After minification 881.0 kB
  • After compression 234.8 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. Alyaum.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 723.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (38%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alyaum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alyaum.com accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

alyaum.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alyaum.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alyaum.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Alyaum.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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