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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

northstardubai.com

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Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstardubai.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 9.3 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

northstardubai.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value49.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value89.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.expandnorthstar.com

1700 ms

font-awesome.min.css

44 ms

plugin.css

722 ms

ekko-lightbox.css

26 ms

glightbox.min.css

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 572 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Northstardubai.com, 1% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Expandnorthstar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (10%)

Content Size

29.0 MB

After Optimization

26.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northstardubai.com main page is 29.0 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 28.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 510.8 kB

  • Original 613.6 kB
  • After minification 613.5 kB
  • After compression 102.9 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 510.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 28.0 MB
  • After minification 25.6 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. North Star Dubai images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 328.2 kB
  • After minification 328.2 kB
  • After compression 308.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 49.3 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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. Northstardubai.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.4 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (6%)

Requests Now

568

After Optimization

532

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 568 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Star Dubai. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northstardubai.com accessibility score

62

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

northstardubai.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

northstardubai.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Northstardubai.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 Northstardubai.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 North Star Dubai. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: