Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

karachiobserver.com

Karachi Observer – Pakistan's First online City News Magazine

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

978 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Karachiobserver.com page load time and found that the first response time was 978 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

karachiobserver.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

karachiobserver.com

978 ms

script.js

38 ms

style.css

49 ms

wpp.css

39 ms

styles.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Karachiobserver.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to C.betrad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Dontjealous.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 619.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

865.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Karachiobserver.com main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 630.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 159.1 kB

  • Original 203.3 kB
  • After minification 199.0 kB
  • After compression 44.1 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 159.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 630.4 kB
  • After minification 597.9 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. Karachi Observer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 397.2 kB

  • Original 615.7 kB
  • After minification 600.6 kB
  • After compression 218.5 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 397.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Karachiobserver.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (53%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Karachi Observer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

karachiobserver.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

karachiobserver.com 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

SEO Factors

karachiobserver.com SEO score

90

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

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 Karachiobserver.com 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 Karachiobserver.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.

Social Sharing Optimization

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