Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

alef.ir

جامعه خبری تحلیلی الف

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

924 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

alef.ir screenshot

About Website

Welcome to alef.ir homepage info - get ready to check Alef best content for Iran right away, or after learning these important things about alef.ir

جامعه خبری تحلیلی الف - تازه‌ترین اخبار و تحلیل‌های سیاسی، اقتصادی، اجتماعی ایران و جهان را در الف بخوانید.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alef.ir page load time and found that the first response time was 924 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alef.ir performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.384

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.alef.ir

924 ms

mahrazSlider.css

192 ms

mah.section.css

262 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

263 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Alef.ir, 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.yektanet.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Alef.ir.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Alef.ir main page is 2.1 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 181.5 kB

  • Original 220.3 kB
  • After minification 219.3 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 181.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 281.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Alef needs image optimization as it can save up to 281.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 158.7 kB
  • After minification 158.7 kB
  • After compression 136.4 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 22.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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. Alef.ir has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (31%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alef. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alef.ir 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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

alef.ir 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alef.ir SEO score

97

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

    FA

  • Language Claimed

    FA

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alef.ir can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Persian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Alef.ir 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 Alef. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: