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The Capital, Nigeria's first online celebrity, business, politics, and lifestyle with depth and modelled to practice unbiased and fact-based journalism
Visit thecapital.ngWe analyzed Thecapital.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Thecapital.ng, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Eurekaglobal-ng.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecapital.ng.
Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (45%)
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In fact, the total size of Thecapital.ng main page is 2.6 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. 75% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 108.6 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 36.9 kB, which is 30% 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 108.6 kB or 89% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 214.3 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. Obviously, The Capital needs image optimization as it can save up to 214.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.
Potential reduce by 540.3 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 540.3 kB or 71% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 289.0 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. Thecapital.ng needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 289.0 kB or 85% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (59%)
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The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Capital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thecapital.ng accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Issue
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.
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Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Links do not have a discernible name
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
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[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
thecapital.ng best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
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Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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Links are not crawlable
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
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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/).
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Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecapital.ng 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 Thecapital.ng 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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Capital. 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: