Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

mideastweb.org

Middle East: MidEastWeb

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

602 ms

mideastweb.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mideastweb.org page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mideastweb.org performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mideastweb.org

255 ms

__utm.js

161 ms

mewstyle.css

168 ms

FB.Share

12 ms

brand

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Mideastweb.org, 12% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.7 kB (72%)

Content Size

116.6 kB

After Optimization

32.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Mideastweb.org main page is 116.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 93.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 92.2 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 72.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Mid East Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 515 B

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. Mideastweb.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (55%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mid East Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mideastweb.org accessibility score

49

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

mideastweb.org best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mideastweb.org SEO score

46

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Mideastweb.org 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 Mideastweb.org 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 Mid East Web. 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: