Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng

Home - thetorchnewsmedia

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 656 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value48,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value64.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng

656 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

36 ms

layout.css

40 ms

style.min.css

51 ms

blocks.style.build.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng, 11% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng main page is 1.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 705.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 97.0 kB

  • Original 115.1 kB
  • After minification 112.2 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 97.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 705.7 kB
  • After minification 687.0 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. Thetorchnewsmedia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 137.3 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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 20.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 210.3 kB
  • After minification 209.9 kB
  • After compression 201.2 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. Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (57%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thetorchnewsmedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng 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 Thetorchnewsmedia.com.ng 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

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