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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

gulf-times.com

Gulf Times - Homepage

Page Load Speed

813 ms in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

597 ms

Page Rendered

182 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gulf Times content for Qatar. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gulf-times.com

Gulf Times - Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper published in Qatar and provide the latest information locally and internationally. Homepage

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulf-times.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 779 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gulf-times.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gulf-times.com

34 ms

gulf-times.com

39 ms

www.gulf-times.com

201 ms

js

90 ms

matomo.js

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Gulf-times.com, 24% (4 requests) were made to Cdn4.premiumread.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Analytics.layoutintl.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (220 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.layoutintl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.1 kB (60%)

Content Size

224.6 kB

After Optimization

89.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gulf-times.com main page is 224.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 183.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 135.1 kB

  • Original 183.0 kB
  • After minification 168.7 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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 135.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 19.9 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. Gulf Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf Times. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gulf-times.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

gulf-times.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gulf-times.com SEO score

99

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 Gulf-times.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 Gulf-times.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 Gulf Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: