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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ara-network.com

Associated Reporters Abroad (ARA) - professional journalists writing for media outlets worldwide.

Page Load Speed

22.6 sec in total

First Response

10.2 sec

Resources Loaded

12.3 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ara-network.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10.2 sec and then it took 12.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ara-network.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ara-network.com

10174 ms

typography2.php

1643 ms

index.php

1908 ms

index.php

2012 ms

index.php

1993 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Ara-network.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ara-network.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

753.3 kB

After Optimization

618.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ara-network.com main page is 753.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 588.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 17.3 kB, which is 41% 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 35.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 588.2 kB
  • After minification 556.8 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. ARA Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 66.9 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 66.9 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 951 B
  • After compression 331 B

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. Ara-network.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (41%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARA Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ara-network.com

ara-network.com

10174 ms

typography2.php

typography2.php

1643 ms

index.php

index.php

1908 ms

index.php

index.php

2012 ms

index.php

index.php

1993 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

11 ms

index.php

index.php

2005 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

251 ms

ja.rightcol.js

ja.rightcol.js

96 ms

system.css

system.css

5 ms

powr_joomla.js

powr_joomla.js

23 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

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world-gray-03.png

12 ms

ARA-logo.png

ARA-logo.png

12 ms

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45px_facebook-logo-webtreatsetc.png

27 ms

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27 ms

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30 ms

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26 ms

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container-bg.gif

30 ms

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71 ms

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45 ms

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p01.jpg

27 ms

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27 ms

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60 ms

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47 ms

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59 ms

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58 ms

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60 ms

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60 ms

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__utm.gif

22 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

16 ms

popup.html

popup.html

22 ms

tooltip.html

tooltip.html

18 ms

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22 ms

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grad3.gif

21 ms

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28 ms

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bg_direction_nav.png

7 ms

Accessibility Review

ara-network.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

ara-network.com best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ara-network.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ara-network.com 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 Ara-network.com 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

ara-network.com

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