Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

nation.com.pk

Latest News, Today's Paper and Daily ePaper – The Nation

Page Load Speed

78.5 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

49.1 sec

Page Rendered

27.9 sec

nation.com.pk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nation.com.pk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 77 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nation.com.pk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nation.com.pk

1490 ms

style.css

870 ms

custom.css

1140 ms

home_page.css

869 ms

css

351 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Nation.com.pk, 4% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.adhigh.net and 4% (6 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.6 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (23%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Nation.com.pk main page is 6.6 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. 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 142.2 kB

  • Original 168.4 kB
  • After minification 121.7 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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 46.8 kB, which is 28% 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 142.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Nation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 596.6 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 1.1 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 222.2 kB

  • Original 263.9 kB
  • After minification 205.2 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Nation.com.pk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 222.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (52%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nation.com.pk accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nation.com.pk best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nation.com.pk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Nation.com.pk 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 Nation.com.pk 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 Nation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: