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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

caribdirect.com

CaribDirect | Caribbean News from around the World, Entertainment, Politics, Culture , Sport and Business

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

931 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caribdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 8.6 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

caribdirect.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.769

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caribdirect.com

191 ms

www.caribdirect.com

4449 ms

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347 ms

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262 ms

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175 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Caribdirect.com, 11% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (11 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Caribdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 923.7 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

741.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caribdirect.com main page is 1.7 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 582.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 144.3 kB

  • Original 174.7 kB
  • After minification 166.2 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 144.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 476.1 kB
  • After minification 444.0 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. Carib Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 384.8 kB

  • Original 582.1 kB
  • After minification 553.2 kB
  • After compression 197.3 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 384.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 362.5 kB

  • Original 432.6 kB
  • After minification 401.1 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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. Caribdirect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 362.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (62%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carib Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

caribdirect.com

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Accessibility Review

caribdirect.com accessibility score

90

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

caribdirect.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

caribdirect.com SEO score

97

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

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 Caribdirect.com 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 Caribdirect.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

caribdirect.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Carib Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: