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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com

The Kathmandu Post | Read online latest news and articles from Nepal

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

943 ms

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kathmandupost.ekantipur.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 6.7 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

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com

56 ms

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693 ms

kathmandupost.com

1750 ms

commonv3.43.css

45 ms

smartbanner.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kathmandupost.ekantipur.com, 27% (17 requests) were made to Jcss-cdn.kathmandupost.com and 14% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Assets-api.kathmandupost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kathmandupost.ekantipur.com main page is 2.5 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 139.0 kB
  • After minification 138.3 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 107.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 191.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Kathmandu Post Ekantipur images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 977 B

  • Original 231.8 kB
  • After minification 231.8 kB
  • After compression 230.8 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 3.4 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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. Kathmandupost.ekantipur.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (40%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kathmandu Post Ekantipur. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com

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56 ms

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693 ms

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1750 ms

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45 ms

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18 ms

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25 ms

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65 ms

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84 ms

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65 ms

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114 ms

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57 ms

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93 ms

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54 ms

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118 ms

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204 ms

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179 ms

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52 ms

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87 ms

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87 ms

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802 ms

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69 ms

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68 ms

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61 ms

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62 ms

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5 ms

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23 ms

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47 ms

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49 ms

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41 ms

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21 ms

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113 ms

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28 ms

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29 ms

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125 ms

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119 ms

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118 ms

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855 ms

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1141 ms

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92 ms

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65 ms

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19 ms

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68 ms

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1415 ms

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2462 ms

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2164 ms

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20 ms

Accessibility Review

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

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

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com SEO score

83

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 Kathmandupost.ekantipur.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 Kathmandupost.ekantipur.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

kathmandupost.ekantipur.com

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