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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

thenigertimes.com

The Niger Times - News, Politics, Lifestyle, Events, Niger State

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

292 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thenigertimes.com homepage info - get ready to check The Niger Times best content right away, or after learning these important things about thenigertimes.com

The Niger Times is an Online & Print Publication bringing News and more from around the globe, with a primary focus on Niger State, Nigeria and Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenigertimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thenigertimes.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thenigertimes.com

3442 ms

font-awesome.min.css

610 ms

newsplus-shortcodes.css

604 ms

owl.carousel.css

614 ms

prettyPhoto.css

635 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Thenigertimes.com, 12% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thenigertimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thenigertimes.com main page is 1.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 635.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 78.8 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 63.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 635.9 kB
  • After minification 625.9 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. The Niger Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 360.3 kB
  • After minification 360.3 kB
  • After compression 344.1 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 188.8 kB
  • After minification 176.0 kB
  • After compression 168.8 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. Thenigertimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (70%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Niger 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thenigertimes.com

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3442 ms

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610 ms

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604 ms

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614 ms

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635 ms

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Accessibility Review

thenigertimes.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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

thenigertimes.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

thenigertimes.com SEO score

82

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

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 Thenigertimes.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 Thenigertimes.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 Niger Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: