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gdn.ng

The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News | The Latest news in Nigeria and world news. The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper brings you the latest h...

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

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About Website

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The Latest news in Nigeria and world news. The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper brings you the latest headlines, opinions, political news, business reports and international news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdn.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gdn.ng performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gdn.ng

91 ms

guardian.ng

224 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

32 ms

style.min.css

126 ms

change_of_name.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gdn.ng, 64% (64 requests) were made to Guardian.ng and 4% (4 requests) were made to Static1.dmcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) relates to the external source Guardian.ng.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 430.4 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

880.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Gdn.ng main page is 1.3 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 710.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 343.1 kB

  • Original 378.0 kB
  • After minification 348.0 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 343.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 710.6 kB
  • After minification 689.4 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. Gdn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 183.9 kB
  • After minification 183.9 kB
  • After compression 128.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 55.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 38.1 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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. Gdn.ng needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (63%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gdn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gdn.ng SEO score

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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 Gdn.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 Gdn.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

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