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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thecaribbeanalert.com

Caribbean News Community, Recent International News Updates, World News - The Caribbean Alert

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecaribbeanalert.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecaribbeanalert.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecaribbeanalert.com

127 ms

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

142 ms

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

615 ms

bootstrap.css

55 ms

style.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Thecaribbeanalert.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Translate.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) belongs to the original domain Thecaribbeanalert.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

668.4 kB

After Optimization

536.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecaribbeanalert.com main page is 668.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 528.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.0 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 528.9 kB
  • After minification 441.6 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. Obviously, The Caribbean Alert needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.3 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 34.1 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. Thecaribbeanalert.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Caribbean Alert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecaribbeanalert.com

thecaribbeanalert.com

127 ms

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

142 ms

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

www.thecaribbeanalert.com

615 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

55 ms

style.css

style.css

109 ms

color1.css

color1.css

160 ms

animate.css

animate.css

160 ms

custom.css

custom.css

163 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

164 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

163 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

162 ms

matchMedia.js

matchMedia.js

210 ms

jquery-waypoints.js

jquery-waypoints.js

210 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

212 ms

jquery.transit.js

jquery.transit.js

213 ms

jquery.leanModal.min.js

jquery.leanModal.min.js

211 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

213 ms

jquery.doubletaptogo.js

jquery.doubletaptogo.js

261 ms

smoothscroll.js

smoothscroll.js

261 ms

main.js

main.js

263 ms

custom.js

custom.js

263 ms

element.js

element.js

48 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

160 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

163 ms

mCustomScrollbar.css

mCustomScrollbar.css

209 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

210 ms

logo.png

logo.png

113 ms

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119 ms

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113 ms

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117 ms

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208 ms

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119 ms

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119 ms

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118 ms

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162 ms

tik-tok.svg

tik-tok.svg

157 ms

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158 ms

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161 ms

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162 ms

20240208135233_548618_1116x500.jpg

20240208135233_548618_1116x500.jpg

261 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

259 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

193 ms

Accessibility Review

thecaribbeanalert.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thecaribbeanalert.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thecaribbeanalert.com 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 Thecaribbeanalert.com 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 Thecaribbeanalert.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

thecaribbeanalert.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Caribbean Alert. 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: