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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

zimfact.org

Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform | ZimFact - ZimFact

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

604 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

About Website

Visit zimfact.org now to see the best up-to-date Zim Fact content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about zimfact.org

Independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform. Dedicated to playing a watchdog role by fact-checking news and information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zimfact.org page load time and found that the first response time was 604 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zimfact.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.66

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zimfact.org

604 ms

d78da66175d3b102502f7be16.js

331 ms

style.min.css

107 ms

css

59 ms

style.min.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Zimfact.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (604 ms) belongs to the original domain Zimfact.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

943.1 kB

After Optimization

728.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Zimfact.org main page is 943.1 kB. 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 639.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 101.5 kB

  • Original 124.7 kB
  • After minification 124.7 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 101.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 65.1 kB

  • Original 639.2 kB
  • After minification 574.1 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. Zim Fact images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 121.6 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 91.4 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 30.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 57.7 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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. Zimfact.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.2 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (25%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zim Fact. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

zimfact.org accessibility score

87

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

zimfact.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

zimfact.org SEO score

77

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

robots.txt is not valid

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 Zimfact.org 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 Zimfact.org 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 Zim Fact. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: