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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

blackcountrybugle.co.uk

News - Latest Birmingham News and information - Birmingham Live

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackcountrybugle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 6.7 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

blackcountrybugle.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackcountrybugle.co.uk

171 ms

10 ms

58 ms

section-base.css

266 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blackcountrybugle.co.uk, 30% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk and 12% (9 requests) were made to Birminghammail.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Js-sec.indexww.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

775.4 kB

After Optimization

368.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackcountrybugle.co.uk main page is 775.4 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 364.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 307.2 kB

  • Original 364.7 kB
  • After minification 364.0 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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 307.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 18.4 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. Obviously, Blackcountrybugle needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 343.6 kB
  • After minification 343.6 kB
  • After compression 247.1 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 96.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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. Blackcountrybugle.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (70%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackcountrybugle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackcountrybugle.co.uk

blackcountrybugle.co.uk

171 ms

10 ms

58 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

266 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

256 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

252 ms

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brand-extended-clipper.acfd0db39471b45d.css

258 ms

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237 ms

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451 ms

s.min.js

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433 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

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431 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

434 ms

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224 ms

tags.min.js

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433 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

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368 ms

pug-runtime.min.js

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429 ms

section.min.js

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431 ms

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431 ms

partner.min.js

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439 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.min.js

chameleon-static-html-clipper.min.js

439 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

443 ms

felix.min.js

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1021 ms

ats.js

ats.js

222 ms

style.css

style.css

437 ms

index.js

index.js

440 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

441 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

422 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

536 ms

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1442 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

926 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

419 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

1415 ms

0_Birmingham-Live-_Reversed.png

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902 ms

icon-birminghammail.svg

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603 ms

logo-birminghammail.png

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605 ms

section.css

section.css

453 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

453 ms

section.css

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454 ms

pubads_impl_2022092001.js

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387 ms

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614 ms

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321 ms

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423 ms

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315 ms

css2

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415 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

748 ms

door.js

door.js

930 ms

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722 ms

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342 ms

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453 ms

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347 ms

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259 ms

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147 ms

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289 ms

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200 ms

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130 ms

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mirrorcouk.min.js

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130 ms

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67 ms

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76 ms

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49 ms

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39 ms

Accessibility Review

blackcountrybugle.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

blackcountrybugle.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackcountrybugle.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blackcountrybugle.co.uk 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 Blackcountrybugle.co.uk 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

blackcountrybugle.co.uk

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