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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

lifestyle.livemint.com

Lifestyle: Latest Lifestyle News, Fashion, Trend News, Health & Beauty Tips – Mint Lounge

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Lifestyle Live Mint content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lifestyle.livemint.com

Mint Lounge is a one-stop guide geared for a range of reader interests, offering an original spin on subjects like Food, Culture, Books, Fashion, Technology, Movies & TV, Health and Relationships.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lifestyle.livemint.com page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lifestyle.livemint.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,180 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lifestyle.livemint.com

55 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

30 ms

jquery.min.js

52 ms

displayAds.js

20 ms

swiper.min.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Lifestyle.livemint.com, 22% (13 requests) were made to Images.livemint.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) relates to the external source Images.livemint.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 741.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Lifestyle.livemint.com main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 831.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 383.3 kB

  • Original 446.2 kB
  • After minification 377.6 kB
  • After compression 62.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 68.6 kB, which is 15% 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 383.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 831.5 kB
  • After minification 831.5 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. Lifestyle Live Mint images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 358.1 kB

  • Original 511.4 kB
  • After minification 511.4 kB
  • After compression 153.3 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 358.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lifestyle Live Mint. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lifestyle.livemint.com accessibility score

72

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

lifestyle.livemint.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lifestyle.livemint.com SEO score

82

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

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 Lifestyle.livemint.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 Lifestyle.livemint.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 Lifestyle Live Mint. 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: