Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

ar.timesofisrael.com

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Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ar.timesofisrael.com page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ar.timesofisrael.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.46

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ar.timesofisrael.com

256 ms

style.css

87 ms

droidarabicnaskh.css

25 ms

droidarabickufi.css

35 ms

rtl.css

352 ms

Our browser made a total of 284 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Ar.timesofisrael.com, 44% (126 requests) were made to Cdn.timesofisrael.com and 10% (27 requests) were made to O.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 965.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ar.timesofisrael.com main page is 4.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 318.9 kB

  • Original 377.6 kB
  • After minification 338.7 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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 318.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 135.6 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Ar Timesofisrael images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 286.1 kB

  • Original 522.6 kB
  • After minification 473.8 kB
  • After compression 236.5 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 286.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 224.7 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 246.8 kB
  • After compression 42.8 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. Ar.timesofisrael.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (31%)

Requests Now

270

After Optimization

185

The browser has sent 270 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ar Timesofisrael. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ar.timesofisrael.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ar.timesofisrael.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ar.timesofisrael.com SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    AR

  • Language Claimed

    AR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ar.timesofisrael.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Arabic is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ar.timesofisrael.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Ar Timesofisrael. 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: