Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

tashkenttimes.uz

Tashkent Times - Tashkent Times

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

717 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

tashkenttimes.uz screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Tashkent Times content for Uzbekistan. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about tashkenttimes.uz

Tashkent Times is an English language online-newspaper that brings all latest Uzbekistan news

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tashkenttimes.uz page load time and found that the first response time was 717 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tashkenttimes.uz performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tashkenttimes.uz

717 ms

vertical.news.slider.css

234 ms

chosen.css

233 ms

finder.css

238 ms

caption.js

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Tashkenttimes.uz, 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Tashkenttimes.uz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

744.9 kB

After Optimization

640.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Tashkenttimes.uz main page is 744.9 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 422.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 63.6 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 48.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 422.1 kB
  • After minification 386.5 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. Tashkent Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 222.7 kB
  • After minification 222.7 kB
  • After compression 210.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 36.5 kB
  • After minification 36.5 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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. Tashkenttimes.uz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (38%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tashkent Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tashkenttimes.uz accessibility score

80

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

tashkenttimes.uz best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tashkenttimes.uz SEO score

88

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tashkenttimes.uz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Tashkenttimes.uz 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 Tashkent Times. 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: