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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thefederal.com

The Federal News | Top Headlines | National and World News

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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About Website

Visit thefederal.com now to see the best up-to-date The Federal content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thefederal.com

The Federal is a digital platform disseminating news, analyses and commentary, in text and multimedia formats. We look at India from the perspective of the states. In an age of extreme viewpoints, we ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefederal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 5.5 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

thefederal.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefederal.com

10 ms

thefederal.com

142 ms

js

297 ms

chartbeat.js

180 ms

fbevents.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Thefederal.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Static.chartbeat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Thefederal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 710.4 kB (70%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

303.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thefederal.com main page is 1.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 808.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 674.6 kB

  • Original 808.5 kB
  • After minification 804.5 kB
  • After compression 133.9 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 674.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 148.7 kB
  • After minification 112.9 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 Federal needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.8 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 10 (26%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Federal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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10 ms

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142 ms

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297 ms

chartbeat.js

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180 ms

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150 ms

beacon.js

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179 ms

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38 ms

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26 ms

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52 ms

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53 ms

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26 ms

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54 ms

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53 ms

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58 ms

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59 ms

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808 ms

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410 ms

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59 ms

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62 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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62 ms

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63 ms

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Roboto-Bold.woff

791 ms

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61 ms

ping

ping

74 ms

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26 ms

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1046 ms

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1000 ms

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970 ms

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1620 ms

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1638 ms

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1946 ms

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1966 ms

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2026 ms

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2799 ms

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1620 ms

Accessibility Review

thefederal.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thefederal.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thefederal.com SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thefederal.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 Thefederal.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

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