Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

rferl.mobi

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

685 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

337 ms

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RFE/RL has more than 700 full-time journalists and 1,300 freelancers reporting the news in 27 languages in 23 countries. We operate where a free press is banned by the government or not fully establis...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rferl.mobi page load time and found that the first response time was 685 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rferl.mobi performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rferl.mobi

685 ms

RFE-en-US.css

13 ms

infographics.b

6 ms

loader.b

9 ms

gtm.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Rferl.mobi, 70% (53 requests) were made to Gdb.rferl.org and 7% (5 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (685 ms) belongs to the original domain Rferl.mobi.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 384.5 kB (48%)

Content Size

800.3 kB

After Optimization

415.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Rferl.mobi main page is 800.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 349.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 127.1 kB

  • Original 157.9 kB
  • After minification 157.5 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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. 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 127.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 349.9 kB
  • After minification 321.1 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. Rferl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 125.3 kB
  • After minification 124.8 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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 86.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 167.2 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. Rferl.mobi needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (13%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rferl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rferl.mobi accessibility score

77

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

rferl.mobi 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rferl.mobi SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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