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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

themorning.lk

Latest in the News Sphere | The Morning

Page Load Speed

203 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

95 ms

Page Rendered

78 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themorning.lk page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 173 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themorning.lk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.511

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themorning.lk

30 ms

themorning.lk

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Themorning.lk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (53 ms) belongs to the original domain Themorning.lk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themorning.lk main page is 5.0 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 177 B
  • After minification 150 B
  • After compression 134 B

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 27 B, which is 15% 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 43 B or 24% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 214.4 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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 Morning images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 151.1 kB
  • After compression 147.5 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 96.7 kB
  • After minification 96.7 kB
  • After compression 80.0 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. Themorning.lk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

themorning.lk

themorning.lk

30 ms

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themorning.lk

53 ms

Accessibility Review

themorning.lk 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

themorning.lk 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

themorning.lk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Themorning.lk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Themorning.lk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

themorning.lk

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