Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

zimtrending.co.zw

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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

690 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

835 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zimtrending.co.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 690 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zimtrending.co.zw performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,050 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.21

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zimtrending.co.zw

690 ms

fontawesome.css

417 ms

wpo-minify-header-35dc2235.min.css

608 ms

wpo-minify-header-772d3915.min.js

527 ms

js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Zimtrending.co.zw, 29% (12 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 19% (8 requests) were made to Affiliate.iqoption.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (921 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

891.4 kB

After Optimization

614.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Zimtrending.co.zw main page is 891.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 456.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 270.6 kB

  • Original 316.2 kB
  • After minification 302.0 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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 270.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 47.2 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. Zim Trending images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 769 B

  • Original 456.7 kB
  • After minification 456.7 kB
  • After compression 455.9 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 1.8 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Zimtrending.co.zw has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (39%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zim Trending. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zimtrending.co.zw 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.

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

Best Practices

zimtrending.co.zw 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

zimtrending.co.zw SEO score

100

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 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 Zimtrending.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 Zimtrending.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

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