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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com

ET Speed (Economic Times Speed) | Real-time Updates

Page Load Speed

26.2 sec in total

First Response

421 ms

Resources Loaded

25.3 sec

Page Rendered

456 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 421 ms and then it took 25.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com

421 ms

css_html5_reset.cms

916 ms

css_etspeed_maincss_v1.cms

822 ms

js_html5_modernizr.cms

820 ms

js_jquery161_min_v1.cms

736 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com, 8% (17 requests) were made to Assets.alicdn.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Ae01.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Net-a-porter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.1 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

827.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 113.7 kB

  • Original 129.0 kB
  • After minification 127.1 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 113.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 330 B

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Speed Economic Times India images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 496.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 742.9 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 496.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 207.5 kB

  • Original 268.7 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (27%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

92

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Speed Economic Times India. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com accessibility score

60

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

speed.economictimes.indiatimes.com SEO score

74

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.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 Speed.economictimes.indiatimes.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 description is not detected on the main page of Speed Economic Times India. 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: