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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

thehindubusinessline.in

Business News Today, Latest Market News, Finance News | The Hindu BusinessLine

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

920 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehindubusinessline.in page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec 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

thehindubusinessline.in performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehindubusinessline.in

2488 ms

www.thehindubusinessline.com

35 ms

dc.js

55 ms

css

42 ms

bootstrap-min.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 263 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thehindubusinessline.in, 46% (121 requests) were made to Thehindubusinessline.com and 5% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehindubusinessline.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (41%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehindubusinessline.in main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 188.2 kB

  • Original 227.7 kB
  • After minification 201.7 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.0 kB, which is 11% 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 188.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. The Hindu Business Line images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 603.6 kB

  • Original 922.3 kB
  • After minification 909.1 kB
  • After compression 318.7 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 603.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 120.0 kB

  • Original 148.3 kB
  • After minification 147.0 kB
  • After compression 28.3 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. Thehindubusinessline.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (42%)

Requests Now

257

After Optimization

149

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 257 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hindu Business Line. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 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

thehindubusinessline.in accessibility score

79

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thehindubusinessline.in best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thehindubusinessline.in SEO score

76

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thehindubusinessline.in can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thehindubusinessline.in 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 The Hindu Business Line. 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: