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Visit ghanatoday.comWe analyzed Ghanatoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.
ghanatoday.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 129 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Ghanatoday.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (6 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ghanatoday.com.
Page size can be reduced by 688.4 kB (54%)
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In fact, the total size of Ghanatoday.com 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 522.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 83.4 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 16.7 kB, which is 17% 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 83.4 kB or 84% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 112.1 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, Ghanatoday needs image optimization as it can save up to 112.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.
Potential reduce by 308.5 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 308.5 kB or 70% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 184.4 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. Ghanatoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.4 kB or 84% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (62%)
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The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ghanatoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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ghanatoday.com accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Internationalization and localization
These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.
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<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute
ghanatoday.com best practices score
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
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Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
ghanatoday.com SEO score
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ghanatoday.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ghanatoday.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.
ghanatoday.com
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ghanatoday. 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: