Access caribbeannews.net. Caribbean News.Net | All the News from the Caribbean Islands

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

caribbeannews.net

40 ms

www.caribbeannews.net

416 ms

foundation.min.css

71 ms

red_style.css

81 ms

font-awesome.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Caribbeannews.net, 36% (36 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 13% (13 requests) were made to Static.themainstreammedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Caribbeannews.net main page is 1.3 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. 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 692.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

Original 67.0 kB
After minification 54.5 kB
After compression 12.1 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 12.5 kB, which is 19% 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 54.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

Original 692.2 kB
After minification 670.8 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. Caribbean News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

Original 429.8 kB
After minification 429.8 kB
After compression 424.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 381 B

Original 133.4 kB
After minification 133.4 kB
After compression 133.0 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. Caribbeannews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Caribbean 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 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

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

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Caribbeannews.net 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 Caribbeannews.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 Caribbean News. 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: