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newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au

Page Redirection

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.php

445 ms

stylesheet3.css

364 ms

buttons.css

323 ms

typeface-0.15.js

353 ms

interstate_regular.typeface.js

506 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (630 ms) belongs to the original domain Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

726.2 kB

After Optimization

455.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au main page is 726.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 341.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.4 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 334.1 kB
  • After minification 327.9 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. Newcastleherald Digitaleditions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 222.5 kB

  • Original 341.8 kB
  • After minification 287.5 kB
  • After compression 119.3 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 222.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (40%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newcastleherald Digitaleditions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

index.php

445 ms

stylesheet3.css

stylesheet3.css

364 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

323 ms

typeface-0.15.js

typeface-0.15.js

353 ms

interstate_regular.typeface.js

interstate_regular.typeface.js

506 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

630 ms

site.js

site.js

188 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

507 ms

jquery.infieldlabel.min.js

jquery.infieldlabel.min.js

383 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.js

599 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

555 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

32 ms

background-and-header-cut.png

background-and-header-cut.png

63 ms

menu_bg.jpg

menu_bg.jpg

63 ms

btn-sign_in.png

btn-sign_in.png

64 ms

subs.png

subs.png

125 ms

3products.png

3products.png

126 ms

2products.png

2products.png

65 ms

navigation_divider.png

navigation_divider.png

122 ms

input_email.png

input_email.png

91 ms

input_password.png

input_password.png

90 ms

tbox.png

tbox.png

91 ms

splash-bg.png

splash-bg.png

520 ms

ga.js

ga.js

35 ms

19 ms

48 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

35 ms

SEO Factors

newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Newcastleherald.digitaleditions.com.au 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Newcastleherald Digitaleditions. 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: