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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ethiopianstoday.com

Homepage | ETHIOPIANS TODAY

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ethiopianstoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ethiopianstoday.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ethiopianstoday.com

238 ms

ethiopianstoday.com

1096 ms

style.min.css

72 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

77 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Ethiopianstoday.com, 23% (25 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 304.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ethiopianstoday.com main page is 1.6 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. 80% 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 796.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 274.0 kB

  • Original 325.9 kB
  • After minification 316.9 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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 274.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 796.1 kB
  • After minification 792.0 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. ETHIOPIANS TODAY images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 363.7 kB
  • After minification 363.6 kB
  • After compression 346.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 119.0 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. Ethiopianstoday.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (57%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ETHIOPIANS TODAY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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238 ms

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Accessibility Review

ethiopianstoday.com accessibility score

78

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

ethiopianstoday.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ethiopianstoday.com SEO score

92

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

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 Ethiopianstoday.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 Ethiopianstoday.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

ethiopianstoday.com

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