Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

apanews.net

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

549 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apanews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 549 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apanews.net performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,700 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.565

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apanews.net

549 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

easySlider1.7.js

140 ms

elastislide.css

160 ms

custom.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Apanews.net, 6% (10 requests) were made to Photo.apanews.net and 2% (4 requests) were made to Z1.zedo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Apanews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 821.1 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Apanews.net main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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 969.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 122.4 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 42.6 kB, which is 35% 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 105.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 969.0 kB
  • After minification 881.8 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. APAnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 401.1 kB

  • Original 669.8 kB
  • After minification 629.9 kB
  • After compression 268.7 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 401.1 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 227.4 kB

  • Original 275.2 kB
  • After minification 262.5 kB
  • After compression 47.8 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. Apanews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (28%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

115

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APAnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apanews.net accessibility score

83

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

apanews.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

apanews.net SEO score

83

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apanews.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French 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 Apanews.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of APAnews. 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: