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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% 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

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

firstnewsonline.ng

FirstNews: Factual and credible reporting of news in Nigeria

Page Load Speed

18.1 sec in total

First Response

6.8 sec

Resources Loaded

10.3 sec

Page Rendered

994 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing First News Online content for Nigeria. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about firstnewsonline.ng

FirstNews is committed to factual and credible reporting of news in Nigeria: in politics, business, sport, health, entertainment, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstnewsonline.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 6.8 sec and then it took 11.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstnewsonline.ng performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.77

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstnewsonline.ng

6805 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

69 ms

style.min.css

98 ms

frontend.min.css

126 ms

flatpickr.min.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Firstnewsonline.ng, 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstnewsonline.ng.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstnewsonline.ng main page is 2.2 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 264.5 kB

  • Original 307.2 kB
  • After minification 266.1 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 41.1 kB, which is 13% 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 264.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 628.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 390.4 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, First News Online needs image optimization as it can save up to 628.1 kB or 62% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 72.0 kB

  • Original 616.8 kB
  • After minification 616.8 kB
  • After compression 544.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 72.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 76.3 kB

  • Original 277.6 kB
  • After minification 258.3 kB
  • After compression 201.3 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. Firstnewsonline.ng needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (78%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First News Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

firstnewsonline.ng accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

firstnewsonline.ng 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

firstnewsonline.ng SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Firstnewsonline.ng 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 Firstnewsonline.ng 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

firstnewsonline.ng

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