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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

news.lk

Sri Lanka News - The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

news.lk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to news.lk homepage info - get ready to check News best content for Sri Lanka right away, or after learning these important things about news.lk

News.lk - The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.lk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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3998 ms

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Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original News.lk, 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain News.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (5%)

Content Size

22.7 MB

After Optimization

21.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.lk main page is 22.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 22.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 130.7 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 117.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 22.0 MB
  • After minification 20.9 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. News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 393.5 kB
  • After minification 393.5 kB
  • After compression 375.4 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 180.0 kB
  • After minification 180.0 kB
  • After compression 173.2 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.lk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (38%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

83

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 134 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 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

news.lk accessibility score

92

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

news.lk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news.lk SEO score

99

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 News.lk 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.lk 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

news.lk

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