Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

express.com.pk

Daily Express Urdu Newspaper | Latest Pakistan News | Breaking News

Page Load Speed

316 ms in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

298 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

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Daily Express Urdu Newspaper delivers latest news in Urdu, including breaking news, current news, top headlines from Pakistan, World, Sports, Business, Cricket and Politics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Express.com.pk page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 298 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

express.com.pk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.271

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

express.com.pk

18 ms

express.com.pk

26 ms

www.express.com.pk

48 ms

front-style.css

19 ms

gpt.js

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Express.com.pk, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagservices.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (121 ms) relates to the external source Googletagservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

565.9 kB

After Optimization

497.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Express.com.pk main page is 565.9 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. Images take 512.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 11.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 56.0 kB

  • Original 512.6 kB
  • After minification 456.6 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. Obviously, Express needs image optimization as it can save up to 56.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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

-41%

Potential reduce by 955 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Express.com.pk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 955 B or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Express. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

express.com.pk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

express.com.pk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

express.com.pk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Express.com.pk 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 Express.com.pk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Express. 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: