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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

theanchor.co.zw

The Anchor - business news, breaking News, Latest news from Zimbabwe

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

504 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theanchor.co.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.6 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

theanchor.co.zw performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theanchor.co.zw

1246 ms

js

100 ms

style.min.css

291 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

318 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

320 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Theanchor.co.zw, 16% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Theanchor.co.zw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

944.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theanchor.co.zw main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 482.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 163.1 kB

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 188.1 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 163.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 482.0 kB
  • After minification 467.8 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. The Anchor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 263.0 kB
  • After minification 263.0 kB
  • After compression 261.9 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 207.8 kB
  • After minification 205.8 kB
  • After compression 186.9 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. Theanchor.co.zw has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (35%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Anchor. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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www.theanchor.co.zw

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100 ms

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Accessibility Review

theanchor.co.zw accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

theanchor.co.zw 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

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

theanchor.co.zw SEO score

90

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

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 Theanchor.co.zw 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 Theanchor.co.zw 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

theanchor.co.zw

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