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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thestandard.co.zw

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestandard.co.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 4.9 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

thestandard.co.zw performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,270 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestandard.co.zw

273 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

58 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

20 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

34 ms

bootstrap.min.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Thestandard.co.zw, 18% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.thestandard.co.zw and 16% (12 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.afp.ai.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 904.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thestandard.co.zw main page is 7.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 174.6 kB

  • Original 199.0 kB
  • After minification 147.8 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 51.2 kB, which is 26% 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 174.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 507.1 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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 Standard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 221.1 kB

  • Original 577.3 kB
  • After minification 577.3 kB
  • After compression 356.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 221.1 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 34.1 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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. Thestandard.co.zw has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (33%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Standard. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thestandard.co.zw

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273 ms

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58 ms

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20 ms

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34 ms

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43 ms

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39 ms

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258 ms

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257 ms

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1752 ms

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53 ms

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29 ms

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28 ms

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29 ms

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52 ms

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224 ms

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309 ms

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503 ms

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Accessibility Review

thestandard.co.zw accessibility score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thestandard.co.zw best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thestandard.co.zw SEO score

86

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

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 Thestandard.co.zw 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 Thestandard.co.zw 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 Standard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: