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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

belfastmediagroup.com

Belfast Media Group

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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About Website

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Website of the Andersonstown News, North Belfast News and South Belfast News.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Belfastmediagroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 5.7 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

belfastmediagroup.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

belfastmediagroup.com

2911 ms

style.css

259 ms

css

23 ms

youtubeplaylist.css

147 ms

belfastmediagroup.com

1288 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Belfastmediagroup.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Belfastmediagroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 700.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Belfastmediagroup.com main page is 5.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 72.6 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 63.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 89.5 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Belfast Media Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 341.1 kB

  • Original 498.6 kB
  • After minification 467.9 kB
  • After compression 157.5 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 341.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 206.8 kB

  • Original 242.3 kB
  • After minification 202.9 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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. Belfastmediagroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (58%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Belfast Media Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

belfastmediagroup.com

belfastmediagroup.com

2911 ms

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259 ms

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23 ms

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953 ms

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Accessibility Review

belfastmediagroup.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

belfastmediagroup.com best practices score

42

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

belfastmediagroup.com SEO score

64

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Belfastmediagroup.com 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 Belfastmediagroup.com 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

belfastmediagroup.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Belfast Media Group. 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: