Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

times.bg

Times.bg - Информационна агенция за новини от България и света!

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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About Website

Welcome to times.bg homepage info - get ready to check Times best content for Bulgaria right away, or after learning these important things about times.bg

Информационна агенция „Таймс БГ“. Четете първи новините от Велико Търново, страната, света и най-интересните събития от светския живот.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Times.bg page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

times.bg performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.85

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

times.bg

110 ms

times.bg

1794 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

277 ms

style.min.css

273 ms

classic-themes.min.css

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Times.bg, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Times.bg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Times.bg 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 838.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 119.0 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 17.0 kB, which is 14% 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 99.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 838.4 kB
  • After minification 774.9 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. Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 141.0 kB
  • After minification 141.0 kB
  • After compression 138.8 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 136.0 kB
  • After minification 136.0 kB
  • After compression 131.2 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. Times.bg has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (35%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

times.bg accessibility score

92

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.

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

times.bg best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

times.bg SEO score

91

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

    BG

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Times.bg can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Bulgarian 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 Times.bg 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 data is detected on the main page of Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: