Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thebengalitimes.com

The Bengali Times - Bengali Newspaper in Canada

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

969 ms

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About Website

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The Bengali Times is the first and most popular Bengali online newspaper in Canada. Visit Bengali Times for the latest Canadian and Bangladeshi exclusive news, Breaking news, reviews, opinion, feature...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebengalitimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebengalitimes.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebengalitimes.com

127 ms

www.thebengalitimes.com

747 ms

prettyPhotoNew.css

113 ms

bootstrap.css

21 ms

style-1.8.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (119 requests) were addressed to the original Thebengalitimes.com, 7% (13 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) belongs to the original domain Thebengalitimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 969.5 kB (32%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thebengalitimes.com main page is 3.1 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 167.1 kB

  • Original 215.8 kB
  • After minification 199.1 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 167.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 78.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. The Bengali Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 498.8 kB

  • Original 752.8 kB
  • After minification 722.8 kB
  • After compression 254.0 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 498.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 225.1 kB

  • Original 258.5 kB
  • After minification 242.0 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Thebengalitimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 225.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (32%)

Requests Now

193

After Optimization

131

The browser has sent 193 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Bengali 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 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thebengalitimes.com accessibility score

86

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

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

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.

Best Practices

thebengalitimes.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thebengalitimes.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    BN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebengalitimes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Bengali/Bangla 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 Thebengalitimes.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 data is detected on the main page of The Bengali Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: