Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

alwatannews.net

Home Page - صحيفة الوطن

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

647 ms

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About Website

Visit alwatannews.net now to see the best up-to-date Alwatannews content for Bahrain and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about alwatannews.net

صحيفة الوطن البحرينية، يومية، سياسية، اقتصادية، اجتماعية، الأسرع انتشارا في البحرين منذ تأسيسها عام 2005.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alwatannews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 540 ms and then it took 2.3 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Alwatannews.net rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

alwatannews.net performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alwatannews.net

540 ms

WebResource.axd

36 ms

ScriptResource.axd

47 ms

ScriptResource.axd

42 ms

bootstrap.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Alwatannews.net, 3% (4 requests) were made to Imawow.weather.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (696 ms) belongs to the original domain Alwatannews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (18%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Alwatannews.net main page is 7.3 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 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 195.7 kB

  • Original 225.7 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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 84.7 kB, which is 38% 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 195.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 197.5 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. Alwatannews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 694.9 kB

  • Original 866.8 kB
  • After minification 614.6 kB
  • After compression 171.8 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 694.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 248.8 kB

  • Original 288.5 kB
  • After minification 232.5 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Alwatannews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 248.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (25%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

86

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alwatannews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alwatannews.net accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

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

Best Practices

alwatannews.net best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alwatannews.net SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alwatannews.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Alwatannews.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 Alwatannews. 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: