Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

omanobserver.om

Oman Observer - home page

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

omanobserver.om screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Omanobserver.om page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

omanobserver.om performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

omanobserver.om

261 ms

omanobserver.om

17 ms

www.omanobserver.om

308 ms

js

131 ms

chartbeat.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Omanobserver.om, 10% (4 requests) were made to Cdn4.premiumread.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Static.chartbeat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (911 ms) belongs to the original domain Omanobserver.om.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

583.6 kB

After Optimization

359.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Omanobserver.om main page is 583.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 319.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 239.1 kB
  • After minification 211.0 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 28.1 kB, which is 12% 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 186.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 319.3 kB
  • After minification 281.3 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. Obviously, Oman Observer needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oman Observer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

omanobserver.om accessibility score

69

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

omanobserver.om 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

omanobserver.om SEO score

95

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 Omanobserver.om 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 Omanobserver.om 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 Oman Observer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: