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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

newsfirst.lk

Newsfirst.lk - Sri Lanka | Latest Breaking News and Top Stories | Sirasa News

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

658 ms

newsfirst.lk screenshot

About Website

Visit newsfirst.lk now to see the best up-to-date Newsfirst content for Sri Lanka and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about newsfirst.lk

Get the latest breaking news and top stories from Sri Lanka, the latest political news, sports news, weather updates, exam results, business news, entertainment news, world news and much more from New...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newsfirst.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 10.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsfirst.lk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,120 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newsfirst.lk

232 ms

english.newsfirst.lk

5038 ms

css2

35 ms

css2

51 ms

css2

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newsfirst.lk, 51% (60 requests) were made to Cdn.newsfirst.lk and 8% (10 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source English.newsfirst.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 486.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

796.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Newsfirst.lk main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 592.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 347.7 kB

  • Original 410.7 kB
  • After minification 410.7 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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 347.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 279.2 kB
  • After minification 265.3 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. Newsfirst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 592.7 kB
  • After minification 591.7 kB
  • After compression 468.3 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 124.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (35%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

70

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newsfirst. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

newsfirst.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

<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

newsfirst.lk best practices score

67

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

newsfirst.lk SEO score

100

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

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 Newsfirst.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 Newsfirst.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

newsfirst.lk

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