Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

Page Load Speed

20.1 sec in total

First Response

4.4 sec

Resources Loaded

14.8 sec

Page Rendered

834 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebalkansdaily.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.4 sec and then it took 15.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebalkansdaily.com performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thebalkansdaily.com

4406 ms

style.css

268 ms

prettyPhoto.css

7775 ms

cat-posts.css

176 ms

styles.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Thebalkansdaily.com, 12% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Thebalkansdaily.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

821.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thebalkansdaily.com 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 734.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 51.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 734.3 kB
  • After minification 709.2 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. Thebalkansdaily images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 141.5 kB

  • Original 230.5 kB
  • After minification 224.4 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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 141.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Thebalkansdaily.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (34%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thebalkansdaily. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thebalkansdaily.com accessibility score

59

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

thebalkansdaily.com 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thebalkansdaily.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebalkansdaily.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Thebalkansdaily.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 Thebalkansdaily. 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: