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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

bolnews.com

Breaking News, Headlines, Top News Stories, Entertainment & Business - BOL News

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

About Website

Welcome to bolnews.com homepage info - get ready to check BOL News best content for Pakistan right away, or after learning these important things about bolnews.com

Breaking News, Top headlines Today, Top News Stories, Entertainment News, Business News & more at BOL News; The official News Website of BOL Media Group.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bolnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bolnews.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bolnews.com

73 ms

style.css

40 ms

responsive.css

28 ms

classic-themes.min.css

25 ms

js

525 ms

Our browser made a total of 176 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (171 requests) were addressed to the original Bolnews.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (530 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.taboola.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 646.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bolnews.com main page is 4.2 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 246.5 kB

  • Original 296.3 kB
  • After minification 296.2 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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 246.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 298 B

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. BOL News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 320.3 kB

  • Original 635.6 kB
  • After minification 635.6 kB
  • After compression 315.3 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 320.3 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 79.2 kB
  • After minification 211 B
  • After compression 194 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. Bolnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.0 kB or 100% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (3%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

168

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BOL News. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bolnews.com accessibility score

74

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bolnews.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bolnews.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bolnews.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 Bolnews.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 data is detected on the main page of BOL News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: