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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gna.org.gh

Ghana News Agency | Ghana's preferred news source: Accurate, Credible, Objective, Timely

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

287 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

6.9 sec

About Website

Welcome to gna.org.gh homepage info - get ready to check Gna best content for Ghana right away, or after learning these important things about gna.org.gh

Ghana News Agency is Ghana's preferred source of news. The News Agency’s core mandate is to collect, process, and disseminate authentic and unbiased news about Ghana and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gna.org.gh page load time and found that the first response time was 287 ms and then it took 11 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

gna.org.gh performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,360 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.171

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gna.org.gh

287 ms

style.min.css

65 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

69 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

384 ms

Our browser made a total of 267 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Gna.org.gh, 42% (111 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 9% (23 requests) were made to Open.spotify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 529.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

15.4 MB

After Optimization

14.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gna.org.gh main page is 15.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 261.5 kB

  • Original 297.4 kB
  • After minification 254.5 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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 42.9 kB, which is 14% 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 261.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 13.9 MB
  • After minification 13.9 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. Gna images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 790.5 kB
  • After minification 790.4 kB
  • After compression 786.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 252.1 kB

  • Original 455.6 kB
  • After minification 454.4 kB
  • After compression 203.5 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. Gna.org.gh needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 252.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (31%)

Requests Now

238

After Optimization

165

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 238 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gna. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gna.org.gh accessibility score

84

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

gna.org.gh 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

gna.org.gh SEO score

90

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