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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

news.calderdale.gov.uk

News Centre - Official news site of Calderdale Council

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

423 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

489 ms

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About Website

Visit news.calderdale.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date News Calderdale content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about news.calderdale.gov.uk

All the latest news from Calderdale Council about Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden, and surrounding areas.

Visit news.calderdale.gov.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed News.calderdale.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 423 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.calderdale.gov.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.calderdale.gov.uk

423 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

134 ms

style.min.css

174 ms

templates.css

167 ms

style.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original News.calderdale.gov.uk, 26% (13 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.calderdale.gov.uk main page is 2.0 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 105.2 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 120.4 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 105.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. News Calderdale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 281.7 kB
  • After minification 277.2 kB
  • After compression 181.2 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 100.5 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. News.calderdale.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (52%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Calderdale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

news.calderdale.gov.uk

news.calderdale.gov.uk

423 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

134 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

174 ms

templates.css

templates.css

167 ms

style.css

style.css

166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

258 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

168 ms

mailchimp-widget-min.js

mailchimp-widget-min.js

214 ms

modernizr.custom.35656.js

modernizr.custom.35656.js

248 ms

js

js

65 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

24 ms

cookies-03-2023.js

cookies-03-2023.js

491 ms

main.js

main.js

291 ms

style.css

style.css

179 ms

logo.png

logo.png

92 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

85 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

83 ms

feed-icon.png

feed-icon.png

83 ms

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LGC-workforce.jpg

84 ms

New-canopy-at-Halifax-Borough-Market.jpg

New-canopy-at-Halifax-Borough-Market.jpg

330 ms

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374 ms

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495 ms

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494 ms

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654 ms

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263 ms

Cllr-Patient-preferred-good-news-photo-e1698683230651.jpg

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425 ms

Calderdale-Logo.png

Calderdale-Logo.png

412 ms

all.js

all.js

16 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

440 ms

calderdale-grey.png

calderdale-grey.png

480 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

10 ms

all.js

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15 ms

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640 ms

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37 ms

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77 ms

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4 ms

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11 ms

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24 ms

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14 ms

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1371 ms

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444 ms

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46 ms

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13 ms

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90 ms

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88 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

101 ms

Accessibility Review

news.calderdale.gov.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

news.calderdale.gov.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

SEO Factors

news.calderdale.gov.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 News.calderdale.gov.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 News.calderdale.gov.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

news.calderdale.gov.uk

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