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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

citizen.digital

Citizen Digital - Breaking News, Kenya News, Latest News, Citizen TV, 2022 elections, Sports, Entertainment, Exclusive videos, Radio, Podcasts

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

349 ms

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizen.digital page load time and found that the first response time was 349 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citizen.digital performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.314

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizen.digital

349 ms

citizen.digital

5817 ms

font-awesome.min.css

61 ms

all.css

92 ms

app.css

413 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Citizen.digital, 19% (15 requests) were made to Citizentv.obs.af-south-1.myhuaweicloud.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Citizen.digital.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 413.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citizen.digital main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 859.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 322.5 kB

  • Original 384.6 kB
  • After minification 383.5 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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. 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 322.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 264.0 kB
  • After minification 256.5 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. Citizen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 83.7 kB

  • Original 859.6 kB
  • After minification 859.6 kB
  • After compression 776.0 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 34 B

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Citizen.digital has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (42%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

citizen.digital accessibility score

93

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

citizen.digital 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citizen.digital SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Citizen.digital 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 Citizen.digital 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 Citizen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: