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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thexpressng.com

The Nigerian Xpress – …news as you like it

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thexpressng.com page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thexpressng.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thexpressng.com

406 ms

style.min.css

127 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

186 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

190 ms

styles.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Thexpressng.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thexpressng.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thexpressng.com main page is 4.1 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. 75% 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 216.7 kB

  • Original 251.2 kB
  • After minification 239.4 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. 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 216.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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 Xpress Ng images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 552.2 kB
  • After minification 552.2 kB
  • After compression 495.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 887 B

  • Original 214.8 kB
  • After minification 214.5 kB
  • After compression 213.9 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. Thexpressng.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (46%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Xpress Ng. 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 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thexpressng.com

www.thexpressng.com

406 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

127 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

186 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

190 ms

styles.css

styles.css

186 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

319 ms

style.css

style.css

188 ms

css

css

50 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

194 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

311 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

248 ms

js

js

117 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

179 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

479 ms

js

js

187 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

479 ms

better-playlist.min.css

better-playlist.min.css

252 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

255 ms

css

css

49 ms

better-reviews.min.css

better-reviews.min.css

257 ms

pretty-photo.min.css

pretty-photo.min.css

309 ms

bs-icons.css

bs-icons.css

313 ms

theme-libs.min.css

theme-libs.min.css

478 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

475 ms

style-7.6.2.min.css

style-7.6.2.min.css

549 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

484 ms

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012e6d900e5a060acfd5648dab7723a4.css

486 ms

public.min.css

public.min.css

431 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

428 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

443 ms

index.js

index.js

442 ms

index.js

index.js

441 ms

e-202440.js

e-202440.js

17 ms

advertising.min.js

advertising.min.js

442 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

609 ms

public.min.js

public.min.js

609 ms

d0ed604000d66fda853e16936799e607.js

d0ed604000d66fda853e16936799e607.js

750 ms

online-magazine-logo-off-canvas.png

online-magazine-logo-off-canvas.png

298 ms

xpress_logo_300x113.png

xpress_logo_300x113.png

298 ms

NLNG-Online-Corporate-Ad_Teamwork_edited.jpg

NLNG-Online-Corporate-Ad_Teamwork_edited.jpg

437 ms

banner-1-scaled.jpg

banner-1-scaled.jpg

451 ms

SME-online-advert-2.jpg

SME-online-advert-2.jpg

439 ms

Giant.jpeg

Giant.jpeg

747 ms

thexpress-cover.jpeg

thexpress-cover.jpeg

451 ms

The-Nigerian-Xpress-Cover-collage.jpg

The-Nigerian-Xpress-Cover-collage.jpg

1303 ms

First-Trust-Bank-2-1024x484.jpeg

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451 ms

Firstmonie-7ReasonsPLA-PSite-970Wx250H-201120.gif

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1307 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

370 ms

mqdefault.jpg

mqdefault.jpg

978 ms

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1011 ms

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1014 ms

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1012 ms

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455 ms

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1012 ms

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1010 ms

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1011 ms

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1013 ms

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1010 ms

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863 ms

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868 ms

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869 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

863 ms

bs-icons.woff

bs-icons.woff

861 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

760 ms

ads

ads

1222 ms

IMG-20241002-WA0002-864x580.jpg

IMG-20241002-WA0002-864x580.jpg

775 ms

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1065 ms

NBS-logo.jpg

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772 ms

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775 ms

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117 ms

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117 ms

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134 ms

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134 ms

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159 ms

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298 ms

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260 ms

Accessibility Review

thexpressng.com accessibility score

93

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thexpressng.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

thexpressng.com SEO score

85

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

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 Thexpressng.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 Thexpressng.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

thexpressng.com

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