Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

southernstar.ie

Your Community, Your West Cork, Your Southern Star | Southern Star

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

southernstar.ie screenshot

About Website

Visit southernstar.ie now to see the best up-to-date Southern Star content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about southernstar.ie

The Southern Star is a weekly newspaper covering local news in West Cork. Available online and in print. Your West Cork|Your Community|Your Southern Star

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernstar.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 297 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

southernstar.ie performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southernstar.ie

297 ms

www.southernstar.ie

1322 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

437 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.min.js

540 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

339 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Southernstar.ie, 27% (30 requests) were made to Data.celticmediagroup.com and 20% (22 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southernstar.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 838.7 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

809.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Southernstar.ie main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 810.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 36.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 57.3 kB

  • Original 591.2 kB
  • After minification 533.9 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. Southern Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 574.1 kB

  • Original 810.0 kB
  • After minification 797.7 kB
  • After compression 235.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 574.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 171.4 kB

  • Original 200.5 kB
  • After minification 156.4 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Southernstar.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 171.4 kB or 85% 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 Southern Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southernstar.ie accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southernstar.ie 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

southernstar.ie SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southernstar.ie 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 Southernstar.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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