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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 63% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

Somerset Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Somerset

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

5 sec

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About Website

Visit centralsomersetgazette.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Central Somerset Gazette content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

Bringing you the latest news, sport and events updates from around Somerset. Including opinion, live blogs, pictures and video from the Somerset Live team.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 161 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

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,340 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

161 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

8 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

161 ms

section-base.css

567 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

588 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk, 31% (22 requests) were made to S2-prod.somersetlive.co.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to S3.mirror.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Felix.data.tm-awx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 582.4 kB (68%)

Content Size

855.6 kB

After Optimization

273.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk main page is 855.6 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 480.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 412.7 kB

  • Original 480.7 kB
  • After minification 480.2 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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 412.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 47.9 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. Central Somerset Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 166.6 kB

  • Original 276.8 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 110.1 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 166.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (71%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central Somerset Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

161 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

8 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

161 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

567 ms

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588 ms

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592 ms

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593 ms

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1153 ms

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1199 ms

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1147 ms

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1147 ms

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1200 ms

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1168 ms

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1111 ms

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1124 ms

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1118 ms

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1221 ms

withnail.min.js

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1261 ms

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1279 ms

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analytics.js.gz

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903 ms

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621 ms

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679 ms

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1209 ms

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961 ms

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522 ms

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350 ms

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339 ms

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360 ms

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57 ms

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740 ms

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627 ms

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614 ms

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247 ms

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283 ms

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analytics.js

177 ms

widgetHomepage.js

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380 ms

tag.min.js

tag.min.js

378 ms

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61 ms

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26 ms

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45 ms

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44 ms

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46 ms

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syncframe

79 ms

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147 ms

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139 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

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139 ms

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reach-beacon.min.js

67 ms

Accessibility Review

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

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

centralsomersetgazette.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

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk SEO score

82

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

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 Centralsomersetgazette.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 Centralsomersetgazette.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

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

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