Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

874 ms

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About Website

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The Northern Argus delivers the latest news from Clare SA including sport, weather, entertainment and lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernargus.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 5.3 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

northernargus.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

northernargus.com.au

45 ms

www.northernargus.com.au

728 ms

app.min.js

1382 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

458 ms

FRM-global.css

915 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Northernargus.com.au, 12% (13 requests) were made to Nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net and 8% (9 requests) were made to Nnimg-a.akamaihd.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.fairfaxregional.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (56%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Northernargus.com.au main page is 3.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 431.8 kB

  • Original 513.9 kB
  • After minification 462.7 kB
  • After compression 82.1 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 431.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 131.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 900.4 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. Obviously, Northernargus needs image optimization as it can save up to 131.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 738.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 355.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 738.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 532.1 kB

  • Original 616.5 kB
  • After minification 610.8 kB
  • After compression 84.4 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. Northernargus.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 532.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (54%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northernargus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

northernargus.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northernargus.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Northernargus.com.au 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 Northernargus. 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: