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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

ft.lk

Sri Lanka's only national business newspaper | Daily FT

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

ft.lk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ft.lk homepage info - get ready to check FT best content for Sri Lanka right away, or after learning these important things about ft.lk

Latest news, analysis and opinions from the Daily FT, Sri Lanka's latest business updates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ft.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 9.9 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

ft.lk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,110 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ft.lk

538 ms

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18 ms

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797 ms

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47 ms

all.css

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Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Ft.lk, 57% (108 requests) were made to Bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-mumbai-1.oraclecloud.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.oraclecloud.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ft.lk main page is 4.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 137.4 kB

  • Original 164.9 kB
  • After minification 164.8 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 137.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 156.4 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. FT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 312.0 kB
  • After minification 312.0 kB
  • After compression 312.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 232 B

  • Original 38.9 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. Ft.lk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (22%)

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

129

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

ft.lk accessibility score

85

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ft.lk best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ft.lk SEO score

84

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 Ft.lk 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 Ft.lk 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

ft.lk

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