Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

alarab.net

كل العرب

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alarab.net page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alarab.net performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.375

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alarab.net

226 ms

www.alarab.co.il

107 ms

www.kul-alarab.com

162 ms

adsbygoogle.js

98 ms

ab10.css

455 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Alarab.net, 60% (9 requests) were made to Components.alarab.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (798 ms) relates to the external source Components.alarab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 584.4 kB (59%)

Content Size

986.1 kB

After Optimization

401.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Alarab.net main page is 986.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 609.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 268.0 kB

  • Original 342.4 kB
  • After minification 289.1 kB
  • After compression 74.4 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 53.3 kB, which is 16% 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 268.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Alarab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 316.1 kB

  • Original 609.3 kB
  • After minification 609.3 kB
  • After compression 293.2 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 316.1 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 30.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (63%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alarab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alarab.net accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alarab.net 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

alarab.net 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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alarab.net 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 Alarab.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Alarab. 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: