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eastlothiancourier.com

Haddington and East Lothian News, Sport, Events - East Lothian Courier

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

497 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

889 ms

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East Lothian Courier - first for news, sport, entertainment for East Lothian, Scotland - including Haddington, North Berwick, Dunbar, Musselburgh.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastlothiancourier.com page load time and found that the first response time was 497 ms and then it took 6.2 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

eastlothiancourier.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

eastlothiancourier.com

497 ms

www.eastlothiancourier.com

1121 ms

gpt.js

11 ms

amzn_ads.js

11 ms

css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 254 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Eastlothiancourier.com, 7% (17 requests) were made to E.visualdna.com and 5% (13 requests) were made to Pixel.quantserve.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Eastlothiancourier.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Eastlothiancourier.com main page is 2.5 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 227.6 kB
  • After minification 152.5 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 75.1 kB, which is 33% 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 190.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 198.8 kB

  • Original 909.3 kB
  • After minification 710.5 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, East Lothian Courier needs image optimization as it can save up to 198.8 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 825.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 909.7 kB
  • After compression 313.8 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 825.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 162.2 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 160.8 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Eastlothiancourier.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 162.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 120 (50%)

Requests Now

239

After Optimization

119

The browser has sent 239 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of East Lothian Courier. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

eastlothiancourier.com SEO score

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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 Eastlothiancourier.com 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 Eastlothiancourier.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of East Lothian Courier. 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: