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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

citizennews.co.ke

Citizen Digital - Breaking News, Kenya News, Latest News, Citizen TV, 2022 elections, Sports, Entertainment, Exclusive videos, Radio, Podcasts

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

788 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizennews.co.ke page load time and found that the first response time was 788 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Citizennews.co.ke rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

citizennews.co.ke performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.22

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizennews.co.ke

788 ms

style.css

113 ms

font-awesome.min.css

83 ms

animate.css

80 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Citizennews.co.ke, 24% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (788 ms) belongs to the original domain Citizennews.co.ke.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 476.4 kB (62%)

Content Size

764.1 kB

After Optimization

287.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citizennews.co.ke main page is 764.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 283.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 8.8 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 1.0 kB, which is 12% 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 6.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 195.9 kB
  • After minification 133.5 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. Obviously, Citizen News Co needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.3 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 167.6 kB

  • Original 283.2 kB
  • After minification 280.2 kB
  • After compression 115.5 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 167.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 240.2 kB

  • Original 276.3 kB
  • After minification 228.5 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Citizennews.co.ke needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (71%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizen News Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

citizennews.co.ke

citizennews.co.ke

788 ms

style.css

style.css

113 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

83 ms

animate.css

animate.css

80 ms

css

css

39 ms

css

css

57 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

154 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

84 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

85 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

44 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

196 ms

scrolltopcontrol.js

scrolltopcontrol.js

195 ms

jquery.plugin.min.js

jquery.plugin.min.js

203 ms

jquery.countdown.min.js

jquery.countdown.min.js

195 ms

custom.js

custom.js

197 ms

coming-soon.js

coming-soon.js

203 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

97 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

71 ms

coming-soon.jpg

coming-soon.jpg

215 ms

logo.png

logo.png

169 ms

we_have_moved.png

we_have_moved.png

164 ms

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60 ms

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40 ms

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38 ms

Accessibility Review

citizennews.co.ke accessibility score

83

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Best Practices

citizennews.co.ke best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

citizennews.co.ke 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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citizennews.co.ke 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 Citizennews.co.ke 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

citizennews.co.ke

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