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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gulftoday.ae

Gulf Today - GulfToday

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

608 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulftoday.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 608 ms and then it took 6.5 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

gulftoday.ae performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gulftoday.ae

608 ms

B6EF085D-6629-4C22-BDBD-A19A187413B5.aspx

2451 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css

965 ms

gulftoday.css

780 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

1202 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Gulftoday.ae, 9% (7 requests) were made to 0 and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Gulftoday.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gulftoday.ae main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.2 kB, which is 33% 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 112.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Gulf Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 151.4 kB

  • Original 214.7 kB
  • After minification 173.5 kB
  • After compression 63.3 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 151.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Gulftoday.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (12%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gulftoday.ae

gulftoday.ae

608 ms

B6EF085D-6629-4C22-BDBD-A19A187413B5.aspx

B6EF085D-6629-4C22-BDBD-A19A187413B5.aspx

2451 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css

965 ms

gulftoday.css

gulftoday.css

780 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

1202 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

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974 ms

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583 ms

ui.core.js

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973 ms

ui.datepicker.js

ui.datepicker.js

1364 ms

Time.js

Time.js

1157 ms

widgets.js

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83 ms

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197 ms

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706 ms

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205 ms

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203 ms

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596 ms

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601 ms

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737 ms

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772 ms

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25 ms

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1404 ms

icon_9.gif

icon_9.gif

907 ms

Accessibility Review

gulftoday.ae accessibility score

89

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.

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

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

gulftoday.ae 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gulftoday.ae SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gulftoday.ae can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gulftoday.ae 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

gulftoday.ae

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