Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

localnewspaper.co.nz

Free Local Newspapers - All Available Regions, New Zealand

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Localnewspaper.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 5 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

localnewspaper.co.nz performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

localnewspaper.co.nz

40 ms

localnewspapers.co.nz

30 ms

localnewspapers.co.nz

3743 ms

dc.js

25 ms

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Localnewspaper.co.nz, 91% (58 requests) were made to Localnewspapers.co.nz and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Localnewspapers.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Localnewspaper.co.nz main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 184.6 kB

  • Original 193.3 kB
  • After minification 184.8 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 184.6 kB or 96% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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. Local New Spaper images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 115.5 kB
  • After compression 115.4 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 520 B

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Localnewspaper.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 520 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local New Spaper. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

localnewspaper.co.nz accessibility score

66

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

localnewspaper.co.nz best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

localnewspaper.co.nz SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Localnewspaper.co.nz 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 Localnewspaper.co.nz 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 description is not detected on the main page of Local New Spaper. 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: