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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

barbadosnews.net

Updating Barbados News, World & Business Reports

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

606 ms

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About Website

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Read breaking Barbados news, world coverage, local weather reports, access Th Daily Nation and other Barbados newspapers, travel sites and a map of the country.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barbadosnews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barbadosnews.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,680 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.257

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barbadosnews.net

59 ms

www.barbadosnews.net

763 ms

foundation.min.css

47 ms

red_style.css

51 ms

font-awesome.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Barbadosnews.net, 40% (36 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 16% (14 requests) were made to Static.themainstreammedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barbadosnews.net main page is 1.2 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. 75% 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 781.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 78.8 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 13.7 kB, which is 17% 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 63.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 781.9 kB
  • After minification 761.6 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. Barbados News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 244.5 kB
  • After minification 244.5 kB
  • After compression 242.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 381 B

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 75.5 kB
  • After compression 75.1 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. Barbadosnews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (23%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barbados News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

barbadosnews.net accessibility score

50

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

<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

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.

SEO Factors

barbadosnews.net SEO score

86

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

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

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 Barbadosnews.net 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 Barbadosnews.net 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

barbadosnews.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Barbados News. 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: