Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

couriermail.com.au

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Couriermail.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 7.5 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

couriermail.com.au performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.349

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

check_cookie.html

13 ms

generator.html

103 ms

www.couriermail.com.au

70 ms

www.couriermail.com.au

110 ms

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 296 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Couriermail.com.au, 21% (62 requests) were made to Cdn.newsapi.com.au and 13% (39 requests) were made to Resources.newscdn.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.newsapi.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.3 MB (51%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Couriermail.com.au main page is 10.4 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 632.4 kB

  • Original 939.2 kB
  • After minification 867.0 kB
  • After compression 306.7 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 632.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Courier Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 4.1 MB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.2 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 4.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 507.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 669.9 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. Couriermail.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 507.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 133 (48%)

Requests Now

275

After Optimization

142

The browser has sent 275 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Courier Mail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

couriermail.com.au accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

couriermail.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

couriermail.com.au SEO score

91

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Couriermail.com.au 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 Couriermail.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 data is detected on the main page of Courier Mail. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: