Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

bbcarabic.com

الرئيسية - BBC News عربي

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

bbcarabic.com screenshot

About Website

Visit bbcarabic.com now to see the best up-to-date BBC Arabic content for Oman and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bbcarabic.com

بي بي سي العربية هي شبكة لنقل الأخبار والمعلومات ومقاطع الفيديو إلى العالم عبر عدة وسائط، تشمل الإنترنت ومواقع التواصل الاجتماعي والراديو والتلفزيون والهواتف المحمولة.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bbcarabic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 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

bbcarabic.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bbcarabic.com

207 ms

arabic

16 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

21 ms

orb-rtl.min.css

90 ms

api.min.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bbcarabic.com, 33% (28 requests) were made to Static.bbci.co.uk and 11% (9 requests) were made to Static.bbc.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (971 ms) relates to the external source Sa.bbc.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.5 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

613.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Bbcarabic.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 881.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 223.8 kB

  • Original 382.9 kB
  • After minification 345.9 kB
  • After compression 159.1 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 223.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 140.6 kB
  • After minification 140.6 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. BBC Arabic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 576.5 kB

  • Original 881.9 kB
  • After minification 876.3 kB
  • After compression 305.3 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 576.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Bbcarabic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (64%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BBC Arabic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bbcarabic.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bbcarabic.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bbcarabic.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bbcarabic.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bbcarabic.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 BBC Arabic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: