Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 54

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

candgnews.com

C&G Newspapers

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

403 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

728 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Candgnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 403 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

candgnews.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.37

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

candgnews.com

403 ms

css

23 ms

css

50 ms

jquery.sidr.light.css

277 ms

dropzone.css

250 ms

Our browser made a total of 249 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (207 requests) were addressed to the original Candgnews.com, 6% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 2% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Candgnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 721.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Candgnews.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

  • Original 172.0 kB
  • After minification 153.4 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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 18.6 kB, which is 11% 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 142.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 186.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Candgnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 70.9 kB

  • Original 141.2 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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 70.9 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 321.2 kB

  • Original 376.6 kB
  • After minification 265.6 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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. Candgnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 321.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (45%)

Requests Now

245

After Optimization

135

The browser has sent 245 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Candgnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 59 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

candgnews.com accessibility score

74

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

candgnews.com best practices score

54

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

candgnews.com SEO score

69

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Candgnews.com 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 Candgnews.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 Candgnews. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: