Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

7perth.com.au

WA News: Latest & Breaking Local News Headlines from Western Australia | 7NEWS

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

566 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 7perth.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 566 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

7perth.com.au performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

7perth.com.au

566 ms

www.7perth.com.au

235 ms

spring.reset.css

14 ms

spring.form.css

145 ms

spring.slideshow.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original 7perth.com.au, 22% (9 requests) were made to Millstreamcms-01.imgix.net and 20% (8 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source D3ap01d8sfcfal.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 231.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

861.2 kB

After Optimization

629.3 kB

In fact, the total size of 7perth.com.au main page is 861.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 499.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 3.2 kB, which is 16% 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 15.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 499.8 kB
  • After minification 489.8 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. 7 Perth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 167.0 kB

  • Original 290.0 kB
  • After minification 254.3 kB
  • After compression 123.0 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 167.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. 7perth.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 7 Perth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

7perth.com.au accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

7perth.com.au 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

7perth.com.au SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 7perth.com.au 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 7perth.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 7 Perth. 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: