Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

enewspaper2.thewest.com.au

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Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

806 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

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Homepage

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Key Findings

We analyzed Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 806 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

enewspaper2.thewest.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

enewspaper2.thewest.com.au

806 ms

index.php

1525 ms

stylesheet_v2012.css

987 ms

buttons_v2012.css

742 ms

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css

989 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au, 12% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 413.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

777.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 646.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 3.4 kB, which is 26% 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 9.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 646.5 kB
  • After minification 639.2 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. Enewspaper 2 The West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 335.6 kB

  • Original 460.1 kB
  • After minification 407.8 kB
  • After compression 124.5 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 335.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (46%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Enewspaper 2 The West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

enewspaper2.thewest.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Enewspaper2.thewest.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Enewspaper2.thewest.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 description is not detected on the main page of Enewspaper 2 The West. 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: