Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% 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

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

morningmirror.africanherd.com

Bulawayo's Morning Mirror Newspaper, Margaret Kriel - Letters from Zimbabwe

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

333 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

About Website

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Letters from Zimbabwe, Bulawayo's Morning Mirror Newspaper

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Key Findings

We analyzed Morningmirror.africanherd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 333 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

morningmirror.africanherd.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

morningmirror.africanherd.com

333 ms

morningmirror.africanherd.com

338 ms

backgrnd.jpg

83 ms

banner.jpg

166 ms

base.js

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Morningmirror.africanherd.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) belongs to the original domain Morningmirror.africanherd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Morningmirror.africanherd.com main page is 1.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 4.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Morning Mirror Africanherd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 466 B
  • After minification 466 B
  • After compression 444 B

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Morning Mirror Africanherd. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

morningmirror.africanherd.com accessibility score

76

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

morningmirror.africanherd.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

morningmirror.africanherd.com SEO score

67

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

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 Morningmirror.africanherd.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 Morningmirror.africanherd.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Morning Mirror Africanherd. 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: