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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

news.band

News.Band - Nigeria's trusted Online Newspaper

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

news.band screenshot

About Website

Visit news.band now to see the best up-to-date News content for Nigeria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about news.band

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.band page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.band performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.268

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.band

1690 ms

style.min.css

128 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

127 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

161 ms

dashicons.min.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original News.band, 34% (13 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain News.band.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

937.4 kB

After Optimization

759.9 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.band main page is 937.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 483.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 170.1 kB

  • Original 205.1 kB
  • After minification 204.8 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. 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 170.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 483.0 kB
  • After minification 483.0 kB
  • After compression 481.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 249.3 kB
  • After minification 249.3 kB
  • After compression 243.7 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. News.band has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (90%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

3

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

news.band

news.band

1690 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

128 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

127 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

161 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

172 ms

a19db.css

a19db.css

133 ms

css

css

182 ms

social-logos.min.css

social-logos.min.css

158 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

159 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

171 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

170 ms

56d32.js

56d32.js

101 ms

js

js

307 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

309 ms

fb03e.css

fb03e.css

153 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

171 ms

counter.js

counter.js

175 ms

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cec51.js

96 ms

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c6ab0.js

96 ms

e-202411.js

e-202411.js

169 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

255 ms

a66f8.js

a66f8.js

96 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

167 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

167 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

167 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

169 ms

bf312.js

bf312.js

162 ms

sharing.min.js

sharing.min.js

168 ms

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1615d.js

148 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

184 ms

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236 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

238 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

189 ms

bs-icons.woff

bs-icons.woff

82 ms

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KFOkCnqEu92Fr1Mu51xIIzc.ttf

191 ms

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show_ads_impl.js

419 ms

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zrt_lookup_nohtml.html

236 ms

51 ms

Accessibility Review

news.band accessibility score

86

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

news.band 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news.band SEO score

91

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 News.band 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 News.band 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: