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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

kurdistantribune.com

An independent platform for Kurdish news and opinion. | The Kurdistan Tribune

Page Load Speed

19.9 sec in total

First Response

7.9 sec

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

671 ms

About Website

Visit kurdistantribune.com now to see the best up-to-date Kurdistan Tribune content for Iraq and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kurdistantribune.com

The Kurdistan Tribune is an independent platform for Kurdish news and opinion. We speak the truth while promoting the well-being of our people and the cause of Kurdistan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kurdistantribune.com page load time and found that the first response time was 7.9 sec and then it took 12 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

kurdistantribune.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kurdistantribune.com

7850 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

240 ms

style.css

167 ms

headway.css

249 ms

leafs.css

499 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Kurdistantribune.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Kurdistantribune.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 725.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

658.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kurdistantribune.com main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 491.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 75.2 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 75.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 491.6 kB
  • After minification 452.8 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. Kurdistan Tribune images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 231.5 kB

  • Original 361.9 kB
  • After minification 361.1 kB
  • After compression 130.4 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 231.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 379.4 kB

  • Original 434.5 kB
  • After minification 401.3 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Kurdistantribune.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 379.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kurdistan Tribune. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kurdistantribune.com accessibility score

71

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kurdistantribune.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kurdistantribune.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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