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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

digital.economictimes.com

The Economic Times: Business News, Personal Finance, Financial News, India Stock Market Investing, Economy News, SENSEX, NIFTY, NSE, BSE Live, IPO New...

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

252 ms

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About Website

Visit digital.economictimes.com now to see the best up-to-date Digital Economic Times content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about digital.economictimes.com

The Economic Times magazine is a unique combination of a weekly business news journal and a Sunday magazine: It gives you crisp analysis of the week's biggest events in economy & business; profiles of...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digital.economictimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 7.6 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

digital.economictimes.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.005

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digital.economictimes.com

1325 ms

custom.css

1221 ms

common_css.css

1260 ms

css_common.css

1235 ms

notIE8.css

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Digital.economictimes.com, 21% (19 requests) were made to Economictimes.indiatimes.com and 17% (16 requests) were made to Sf.readwhere.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source Iacache.epapr.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.0 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digital.economictimes.com main page is 2.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 78.7 kB

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 82.9 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.9 kB, which is 11% 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 78.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Digital Economic Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 555.9 kB

  • Original 888.6 kB
  • After minification 821.0 kB
  • After compression 332.6 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 555.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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. Digital.economictimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (49%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Economic Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

digital.economictimes.com

digital.economictimes.com

1325 ms

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1221 ms

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1260 ms

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1235 ms

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372 ms

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407 ms

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469 ms

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675 ms

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21 ms

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55 ms

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1514 ms

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295 ms

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398 ms

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294 ms

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1573 ms

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702 ms

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36 ms

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Accessibility Review

digital.economictimes.com accessibility score

57

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

digital.economictimes.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

digital.economictimes.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Digital.economictimes.com 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 Digital.economictimes.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

digital.economictimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Digital Economic Times. 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: