Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

whatson.com.mt

Whats on in Malta - Music, concerts, theatre, sports, cinema, sales, events guide | What's On Malta, Malta Events Guide

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

419 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatson.com.mt page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 12 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

whatson.com.mt performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,520 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.126

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatson.com.mt

412 ms

whatson.com.mt

3275 ms

home.htm

568 ms

bootstrap.min.css

157 ms

ltr.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Whatson.com.mt, 10% (11 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Whatson.com.mt.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Whatson.com.mt main page is 2.2 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. 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 991.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 122.3 kB

  • Original 145.2 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 21.6 kB, which is 15% 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 122.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 991.1 kB
  • After minification 977.8 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. Whats On images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.3 kB

  • Original 976.2 kB
  • After minification 976.1 kB
  • After compression 936.9 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 1.4 kB

  • Original 48.0 kB
  • After minification 48.0 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Whatson.com.mt has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (62%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whats On. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whatson.com.mt accessibility score

91

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

whatson.com.mt best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whatson.com.mt SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whatson.com.mt can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Whatson.com.mt 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 Whats On. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: