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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thecitizen.in

The Citizen - Independent Journalism | Indian News | The Citizen

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

455 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

409 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecitizen.in page load time and found that the first response time was 455 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecitizen.in performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.662

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecitizen.in

455 ms

www.thecitizen.in

1279 ms

js

56 ms

adsbygoogle.js

180 ms

themespendinline.min.54c413ea.css

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Thecitizen.in, 14% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 14% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecitizen.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

906.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thecitizen.in 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 180.5 kB

  • Original 223.1 kB
  • After minification 221.1 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 180.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 360.6 kB
  • After minification 351.3 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 Citizen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 515.1 kB
  • After minification 515.0 kB
  • After compression 512.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Citizen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecitizen.in

thecitizen.in

455 ms

www.thecitizen.in

www.thecitizen.in

1279 ms

js

js

56 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

180 ms

themespendinline.min.54c413ea.css

themespendinline.min.54c413ea.css

254 ms

adsbyhocalwiretest.js

adsbyhocalwiretest.js

471 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

272 ms

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422 ms

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446 ms

logo.png

logo.png

649 ms

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672 ms

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677 ms

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NotoSans-Regular.ttf

1727 ms

NotoSans-Bold.ttf

NotoSans-Bold.ttf

2096 ms

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hocalwirecommlightp1.min.19dfddc4.js

921 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

32 ms

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ads

568 ms

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202 ms

ads

ads

586 ms

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ads

576 ms

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574 ms

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515 ms

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632 ms

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597 ms

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514 ms

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612 ms

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623 ms

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813 ms

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832 ms

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67 ms

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load_preloaded_resource.js

80 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

104 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

118 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

130 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

185 ms

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59 ms

fullscreen_api_adapter.js

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115 ms

interstitial_ad_frame.js

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135 ms

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51 ms

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61 ms

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33 ms

feedback_grey600_24dp.png

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84 ms

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91 ms

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s

22 ms

css

css

88 ms

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16 ms

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26 ms

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27 ms

activeview

activeview

69 ms

Accessibility Review

thecitizen.in accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

thecitizen.in best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecitizen.in SEO score

89

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 Thecitizen.in 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 Thecitizen.in 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

thecitizen.in

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