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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

layoftheland.online

Lay Of The Land – Reliable reportage and insightful commentary on the Middle East by seasoned journalists from the region and beyond

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Layoftheland.online page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 7.1 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

layoftheland.online performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

layoftheland.online

12 ms

layoftheland.online

31 ms

infinity.css

66 ms

style.min.css

77 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Layoftheland.online, 38% (48 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 11% (14 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Jnn-pa.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

10.0 MB

After Optimization

9.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Layoftheland.online main page is 10.0 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 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 213.1 kB

  • Original 262.3 kB
  • After minification 256.3 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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 213.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 448 B

  • Original 9.1 MB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Lay Of The Land images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 225.0 kB

  • Original 502.3 kB
  • After minification 502.3 kB
  • After compression 277.3 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 225.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 137.6 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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. Layoftheland.online has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (38%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

75

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lay Of The Land. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

layoftheland.online accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

layoftheland.online best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

layoftheland.online SEO score

91

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 Layoftheland.online 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 Layoftheland.online 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 Lay Of The Land. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: